Jane Roskams

Angela Jane Roskams is a neuroscientist and the Executive Director of Strategy and Alliances at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. At the University of British Columbia , she was professor in the Brain Research Centre and directed a laboratory of neural regeneration and brain repair. Roskams also worked at Johns Hopkins Medical School, where she began research to analyse the mechanisms that drive successful regeneration in the olfactory system and underscore the early loss of brain function in Alzheimers disease. This led her to research examining the interplay between genetics and the environment in shaping how cells in the nervous system develop and adapt.

Roskams was born and raised on the Isle of Man. She attended the University College of Swansea, from which she graduated with a first class honours degree in biochemistry. A graduate scholarship took her to the United States to study journalism at the University of Idaho for her masters studies. Local reporting resulted in her being awarded a Sigma Delta Chi Award for science journalism. She completed her PhD in neuroscience at Penn State University in 1991.

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