Joseph Allison, MSci, Research Technician | UK Dementia Research Institute, King’s College London

Joseph Allison MSci, is a Research Technician at the UK Dementia Research Institute, King’s College London. He studied and received his MSci degree from King’s College London with two extended research projects involving behavioural assays in Drosophila to elucidate the development of ‘negative’ associative learning as well as AAV stereotaxic injections in mice to determine the neural connectivity underpinning sunlight-mediated mood and cognition. In 2019, he joined the Christopher Shaw Lab with the team’s research focus centred around gene therapy and pathomechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia.

Over the last two years he has worked in the histology team processing animal tissue for immunohistochemical and fluorescent staining with subsequent imaging on a slide scanner or confocal, multiphoton, and calcium imaging microscopes. He is now in charge of quantifying the images obtained using software such as Visiopharm to develop apps informing business decisions through analysis of efficacy and toxicity.