Julia Jenkins, PhD

Dr. Jenkins is a biochemist with special expertise in wound healing, muscle regeneration, vascular biology, and gene transfer techniques. Her PhD research focused on viral gene transfer methods, and she spent eight years working as senior postdoctoral research fellow at King’s British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence. At the University of Singapore, she collaborated with bio-engineers to model mechanical damage, using bio-artificial muscle in a novel lab-on-chip device. Dr. Jenkins has published 42 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored several scientific book chapters. She now works as a specialist technical writer.