Harris, Kate BA (Mod)

Kate was awarded an honours degree from the Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin. She then undertook a PhD, which she is currently writing, in molecular neuropharmacology in the Conway Institute, University College Dublin.

The focus of Kate's research centred on the development of the hypothesis that low doses of endocrine disrupting compounds can skew the cell fate decisions of neural stem cells to a predominantly neuronally differentiated cell population. She examined this theory in an in vitro system by developing an automated screen for these compounds with neuronal lineage as the endpoint marker and in an in vivo setting by determining the effect of chronic low dose estrogen exposure on the structuring of the hippocampus during development.

Kate joined PURDYLUCEY in June 2008 and will assist in the drafting of patents across a broad field in the life sciences including the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceutics, biochemistry and drug development.

Contact email: kate@purdylucey.com