Dr. Alexandra Nicaise received her B.S. from Trinity College, Connecticut in Neuroscience and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut Health Center in 2019 in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Crocker. From 2019, Alex has been a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Stefano Pluchino in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK and was recently promoted to Senior Research Associate.
During her postdoctoral training she has focused on uncovering the role of glial cell populations associated with neuroinflammation in the context of aging and neurodegenerative disease, in particular Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Alex has generated 25 papers and two book chapters as a student and postdoctoral fellow (eight as first or co-first author) including a recent Cell Stem Cell paper. She has secured significant funding during her postdoctoral training including a European Committee for Treatment and Research in MS postdoctoral fellowship, was co-Investigator on a grant from the Spatiotemporal Omics Consortium, is co-Investigator on an Italian MS Society Research Project grant and is currently Principal Investigator on a UK MS Society Catalyst Award.