Dr Barry Chioza

About me:

Barry Chioza is a Research Fellow working at the University of Exeter Medical School. Barry obtained an Honours degree in Biochemistry from Aberystwyth University before going to King’s College London to complete a M.Sc. in Neuroscience, followed by a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics. His project aimed to identify variants in candidate genes for idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE) that have been previously identified to be involved in Mendelian idiopathic epilepsies in humans or mouse models using case-control and within-family association studies.

After completion of his Ph.D. Barry worked within leading research groups at the University College London, St George’s University of London and the University of Exeter.

Barry joined the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group in January 2018 to work on a MRC project investigating regulatory genomic variation associated with schizophrenia in human neuronal nuclei and is currently working on a MRC project applying the same methodology to Alzheimer's disease.

Qualifications:

• PhD
• MSc. Neuroscience
• BSc.(Hons) Biochemistry