Harry is a postdoctoral research assistant with the chronic pain research group and was appointed to his current post in September 2015. Prior to this he graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2009 with a BSc(Hons) in Genetics and then completed an MSc at Imperial College London in Human Molecular Genetics. Having gained an interest for investigating genetic risk factors of complex disorders from the research component of his MSc, he then undertook a PhD at Arthritis Research UK, Centre for Genetics and Genomics at the University of Manchester, studying the genetic basis of late-onset psoriasis under the supervision of Dr Richard Warren, Professor Anne Barton and Dr John Bowes. Following the completion of his PhD at the end 2014, he of took up a short Research Associate position, contributing to a genome-wide association study in psoriatic arthritis and the analysis of age of onset as a quantitative trait in psoriasis.

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