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Helen O'Neill

Program Director of Reproductive Science and Women's Health MSc, UCL

Program Director of Reproductive Science and Women's Health MSc, UCL Dr Helen O’Neill is a molecular geneticist at University College London (UCL). She did her BSc in Molecular Genetics at University College Cork in Ireland and went on to do her MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine at University College London. Dr O’Neill then did her PhD and postdoctoral research in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics in the laboratory of Professor Robin Lovell-Badge at the National Institute for Medical Research (now the Francis Crick Institute). There, she researched the genes involved in sex determination, including genes crucial for the formation of ovaries. Helen is currently in the Embryology, IVF and Reproductive Genetics Group at the Institute for Women’s Health in UCL. Here, she works on the morphokinetics of preimplantation embryos and is using CRISPR genome editing to assess the treatment and understanding of sex chromosome disorders and neuromuscular disorders. Helen is also the Programme Director for Reproductive Science and Women’s Health at UCL and lectures both masters and medical students.