Corinne Betts

Corinne Betts is the Clinical Trial Co-ordinator and Operations Manager for the STRONG Team, led by Prof. Laurent Servais and Dr Sithara Ramdas at the MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre. She manages a portfolio of academic and industry led studies in the paediatric neuromuscular field.

Corinne obtained her BMedSci degree from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, and her DPhil/PhD from the University of Oxford, where she worked with Prof. Matthew Wood in the field of antisense therapy for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. She continued in Prof. Wood’s laboratory working as a postdoctoral researcher for a further 5 years.

Corinne has worked as a Project Manager within the STRONG Team, where she assisted with regulatory approvals and the initiation of multiple clinical studies. She has 12 years’ experience in the biomedical field focussed on drug discovery and pre-clinical screening for rare neuromuscular diseases, and spent 4 years working in quality management for a successful immunodiagnostics biotech company. She has extensive experience managing independent research, leading teams, and successfully collaborating with experts in multiple fields.