Professor Rosemary Fricker

Rosemary is an Alumna of Wolfson College (1992), obtaining a PhD in Neuroscience from Cambridge. Following postdoctoral positions at Lund University, Sweden, and Harvard Medical School, she held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at Cardiff University, before joining Keele University Medical School. Alongside her research at Keele, she was Director of Medical Sciences, responsible for pre-clinical education in the MBChB programme. She is currently Director of Studies for Pre-clinical Medicine (Standard/Affiliate Course) at Wolfson.

Rosemary’s research interests include the conversion of stem cells to mature neurons and the role of vitamins in neuronal development and neuroprotection; as well as the development of “brain-on-a-chip” in vitro models of neural circuits. 

Following the award of a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship, her research has taken a new direction: exploring the historical collections of plants and insects within the Herbarium and Zoology Museum at Cambridge University, to determine the impact of human activity on natural ecosystems in the Fens over the last 200 years.