Dr Margaret Ryan
Dr Margaret Ryan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago. Her research interest is in how memories are formed and stored in the brain at the molecular level and how this may be altered in Alzheimer’s disease. In 2009, Dr Ryan received a Neurological Foundation Project Grant with co-investigators Dr Joanna Williams and Professor Warren Tate to study the mechanisms of a protective protein in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease and investigate its therapeutic potential in the treatment of this devastating dementia.