3 April 2009
The Newton International Fellowship scheme , run by The British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and The Royal Society, aims to attract the world's best postdoctoral researchers to the UK.
These are two-year Fellowships followed by funding, worth £6,000 per year for ten years after the Fellowship ends to support follow-on activities that enables Newton Fellows to build long-term links with the UK.
Fiona obtained her PhD in 2008 from the Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she assisted in pioneering the novel technique of chronic (4 weeks) sympathetic nerve activity recording in small rodents using radio-telemetry. This ground breaking technology will allow for the first time causation experiments to be performed to address the role of autonomic dysfunction in hypertension, obesity and diabetes. Fiona's Newton Fellowship will address the recently emerged idea that brainstem vascular inflammation contributes to the aetiology of the hyperactive sympathetic nervous system in neurogenic hypertension.
