Dr. Becky Carlyle

Associate Professor

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Biography

Becky Carlyle received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2010, focusing on the interactions between mental illness risk gene, Disrupted Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), and important neuronal enzymes such as PDE4 and GSK3-beta. After completing her PhD, she moved to the USA and spent seven years at Yale University's Department of Molecular Psychiatry, where she worked on a range of projects involving mass-spectrometry proteomic assays across multiple human brain regions. She established an aged rhesus macaque model to study early Alzheimer's Disease and developed cell-type specific techniques for measuring protein translation rates. In 2017, she joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School's Neurology department, applying proteomic techniques to identify novel tissue and biofluid markers related to Alzheimer's Disease and associated disorders. Upon returning to the UK, she was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from Alzheimer's Research UK to launch her own research program in autumn 2022.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Oxford

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.7
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:24
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:110
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Politics, International Relations, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy or Sociology
Application Checklist
  • Three academic references
  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Statement of Purpose (1,000 words)
  • Two academic essays (2,000 words each)
Specialization Notes

Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.