Dora Markati
MD, MPhil
DPhil student
Dora graduated in Medicine in 2016 from the University of Patras (GR). In 2020 she received her MPhil in Biological Science from the University of Cambridge (UK). During her MPhil, she worked on the mechanisms of nervous system development and her studies were supported by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y). She received training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London, UK) and Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge, UK). She also trained in Neonatology at St Mary's Hospital (London, UK), where she also worked as an Honorary Research Associate of the Center for Perinatal Neuroscience at Imperial College London.
She is currently a member of Professor Laurent Servais' team at the University of Oxford and a scholar of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. She is working on clinical studies and trials for Angelman syndrome and neuromuscular diseases. Her work focuses on the identification and validation of sensitive outcome measures and biomarkers of disease, using several methods including proteomic analysis.