Jessica Stoodley

I am a DPhil student and research assistant with 7 years of experience working on developing treatment for neuromuscular diseases as part of the Wood group. I graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Natural Sciences where my particular focus was medical biochemistry. Upon joining the Wood group, I initially worked on developing and testing new therapies for spinal muscular atrophy using antisense oligonucleotide conjugates as part of the SMA team. Since starting my DPhil I have been focusing on developing treatments for the treatment of myotonic dystrophy 1, especially focusing on using cell penetrating peptide- and antibody- antisense oligonucleotide conjugates targeting the transferrin receptor (TfR1) .