Biography
Dr. Gregory-Evans received an undergraduate degree in Pharmacology from the University of Sunderland in 1985 and her PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Glasgow in 1988, under the tutelage of Professors Carolyn Converse and Wallace Foulds. After completing postdoctoral research fellowships at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Medical School in California and at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, UK she was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London in 1997, before taking up her current position at UBC in 2009. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular basis of human ocular and neurodegenerative diseases, using zebrafish, mouse and lizard model systems. She has published over 100 papers including identifying disease genes, studying ocular embryology and developing novel therapeutic strategies, including most recently START therapy for aniridia.
