Dr Heidi Olzscha
Celgene Fellow at the Department of Oncology and Fulford Junior Research Fellow in Medicine at Somerville College
About
Dr Olzscha investigates how small protein tags, known as post-translational modifications, change the structure and interaction of proteins. This has implications for drug development in cancer, but also neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.
Expertise
- Oncology
- Epigenetics of cancer
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Drug development
- Personalised medicine
- Biomedicine
- Ageing
- Biomarkers
Selected publications
Media experience
Dr Olzscha has experience of print media and has presented her research in video interviews.
Recent media work
Languages
English and German