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Dr Philip McGoldrick
Name:
Dr Philip McGoldrick
Job Title:
Research Associate
Place of work / study:
University of Toronto
Area of Research:
Nucleocytoplasmic transport dysfunction in ALS / FTD
How is your research funded:
ALS Canada-Brain Canada Career Transition Award
Tell us a little about yourself:
Hello, my name’s Phil. I’m a research associate at the University of Toronto, funded by an ALS Canada-Brain Canada Career Transition award, which will help me set up my own lab in the future. I’ve been working on ALS since I started my PhD at UCL Institute of Neurology in 2008. I’m interested in the basic mechanisms that contribute to disease progression and investigate them using a mixture of cell and animal models, alongside post mortem patient tissue.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
I like basketball.
Why did you choose to work in Dementia?
At a young age I saw how neurodegenerative diseases affected family members and wanted to contribute to understand the diseases.
What single piece of advice would you give to an early career researcher?
Work hard and don’t get beat.
What book are you reading right now? Would you recommend it?
I’m re-reading the first book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It’s fairly dark, bloody fantasy saga – there’s 10 books in the main series and numerous other tales set in that world.
Dr Sam Moxon