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Andrea Townsend-Nicholson obtained a Bachelor of Science Specialist degree in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology with a Major in Zoology from the University of Toronto in 1986. She moved to the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France, to investigate the establishment of the dorsoventral polarity axis in Drosophila melanogaster and received her doctorate in Cellular Molecular Biology from Université Louis Pasteur in 1990. From 1991 to 1996, she shifted her focus from transcriptional studies to cell signaling, studying mammalian G protein-coupled receptors as a postdoctoral fellow in the Neurobiology Division at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. During this time, she cloned and characterized adenosine receptor subtypes. She began her research career at University College in Canada before joining University College London in 2001, following one and a half years as a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Research Fellow. Dr. Townsend-Nicholson is currently part of the academic staff at University College London, specializing in Structural & Molecular Biology.