Dr Sara Anjomani Virmouni
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

Research area(s)

Neurodegenerative diseases, Friedreich’s ataxia, Epigenetics and Metabolomics

Research Interests

The Ataxia Research Group investigates molecular disease mechanisms and therapy for the inherited disorder, Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA). Currently, the lab is focused on five projects:

• Metabolomics analysis of FRDA cells
• Proteome/phosphoproteome analysis of FRDA cells
• Cell and gene therapy for FRDA
• Therapeutic potential of different antioxidants in FRDA
• Development and characterisation of GAA repeat-based FRDA transgenic mouse models

Team:

Senior Research Fellow

• Dr Sahar Al-Mahdawi

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Dr Saqlain Suleman 

PhD Students

• Mr Fred Edzeamey
• Ms Zeynep Ulukutuk 
• MS Zenouska Ramchunder

Grants