Serena Briant
PhD, BSc (Hons)
Research Facilitator and Novo Nordisk Programme Manager
Currently on maternity leave, please contact Ruth McCaffrey (for RDM Funding) or Kathleen Dolan (for Novo Nordisk Fellowship Programme).
I am a Research Facilitator in the RDM Research Strategy and Funding team and primarily support early career researchers in submitting external fellowship applications. I meet with researchers who are looking to apply for fellowships or are considering whether other funding options might be more appropriate. I coordinate the RDM internal peer review process in order to strengthen fellowship applications, prior to submission, and organise mock interviews.
I coordinate RDM's annual pump priming funding call.
I am also Programme Manager for the Novo Nordisk - Oxford Fellowship Programme. I manage the annual call for projects, recruitment, budgeting, annual symposia and reporting back to our sponsor, Novo Nordisk.
I joined the University of Oxford in 2015, working as a Research Administrator for the Oxford Alzheimer's Research UK Network Centre and Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre, based within the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. I am a scientist by training, with a background in autonomic neuroscience. I obtained an undergraduate degree in Physiological Science in 2010 and then went on to complete a PhD in Systems Neuroscience in 2014, both at the University of Bristol.
Recent publications
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Release of beta-endorphin from brainstem pro-opiomelanocortin neurons in mice produces anxiolysis but not place preference
Conference paper
Holmes F. et al, (2016), BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA, 117, E843 - E843
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Activation of Brainstem Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons Produces Opioidergic Analgesia, Bradycardia and Bradypnoea.
Journal article
Cerritelli S. et al, (2016), PLoS One, 11