Dr Amy McTague

Amy McTague is an Principal Research Fellow at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Following training in paediatric neurology, Amy completed an MRC-funded PhD in the genetics of early onset epilepsy in the Kurian lab in 2018. After award of an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship, Amy started her group at the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in 2020. Amy is PI of an international study of rapid whole genome sequencing for epilepsy, a joint investigator for several epilepsy gene/RNA therapy trials and is investigating mechanisms and potential novel therapies using novel disease models including 3D stem-cell derived organoids.