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Yaseen Malik
DPhil
- DPhil Candidate
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant
I completed my BS and MS (Pharm.) from India. Before joining Oxford in Nov 2019, I worked as a senior research fellow at the Central Drug Research Institute, in India.
The focus of my DPhil centres around studying the role of BDNF-TRKB signalling in the initiation process of motor dysfunction and early degenerative changes in a transgenic mouse model with a selective deletion of Trkb from the striatopallidal enkephalinergic medium spiny neurons. This includes studying the impact of the dysregulation of a newly identified key candidate gene on the increased vulnerability of striatal neurons for degeneration.
My DPhil was sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat UK Fellowship (2019-23). My DPhil was awarded in March 2024. Post my DPhil, I worked as a postdoctoral research assistant.
Outside of my laboratory research, I also undertake to demonstrate Pharmacology practicals to undergraduate and MSc students. I am also interested in outreach activities, and to this end, I work as Secretary of the Oxford Pharmacology Society.