Katherine Benson
Epilepsy, Postdoctoral Researchers, RCSI
Email: | katherinebenson@rcsi.com |
Institution: | RCSI |
Nationality: | Irish |
Disease Areas: | Epilepsy |
Thematic Area: | Diagnostics |
Areas of expertise: | Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
Supervisor: | Gianpiero Cavalleri |
Katherine is currently using next generation sequencing technologies to improve understanding of how genomic testing can help improve diagnostics and patient outcomes. She completed a PhD in Queen’s University Belfast, UK in 2017 after which she joined RCSI. Katherine has a particular research interest in renal disease genomics and was recently awarded a fellowship by the Irish Research council to utilise genomic sequencing to better understand hereditary renal disease in Ireland in a collaboration with Beaumont Hospital, the National Centre for Kidney Transplantation. Katie also works as part of SFI FutureNeuro to integrate genomic sequencing data into the electronic health records for adult and paediatric epilepsy clinics in Ireland.