Dr. Nicole Noel

Dr. Nicole Noel is a research fellow studying retinal ageing in the killifish. She is an ocular geneticist and photoreceptor biologist. Dr. Noel obtained her PhD in medical genetics from University of Alberta in Canada, studying inherited photoreceptor diseases and modelling disease in zebrafish. She identified novel genetic associations with photoreceptor degenerations in patients and developed a zebrafish retinopathy model. This was first zebrafish model of photoreceptor disease with reported subretinal deposits, an age-related macular degeneration-like manifestation. Dr. Noel’s current research aims to determine the biological processes underlying age-related retinal disease and identify therapeutics by utilising killifish, a model of accelerated ageing.

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