Prof Roslyn Bill
Professor of Biotechnology and Director of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence - Aston University
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Roslyn is Aston University’s 50th anniversary professor of biotechnology and director of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence.
She obtained her BA and DPhil degrees in chemistry from Oxford.
After working as a clinical scientist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, she undertook postdoctoral study at the University of Michigan as a Fulbright Scholar.
Roslyn then moved to Gothenburg University to work with Stefan Hohmann before taking up a position at Aston University in 2002.
While at Aston she has co-founded the aquaporin sub-committee of the IUPHAR/Guide to Pharmacology and was appointed chief scientific officer of Estuar Pharmaceuticals.
She also served as chair of BBSRC Research Committee E for two terms and as executive editor of BBA Biomembranes.
Roslyn currently holds an ERC advanced grant to understand the brain’s waste clearance system.
Her recent BiTS/ARIA fellowship will enable her to design a programme to slow dementia onset.
Roslyn has a current visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.
She is working in the department of physiology, anatomy and genetics to model and manipulate the molecules that control these processes in the human brain.
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