Dr Neil Davies - Oncology/Neuroscience/Gene Expression

Dr. Davies has a B.Sc. (Hons. 1st Class) with a double-major in Zoology and Molecular Genetics and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of N.S.W., Australia. He has worked as a professional freelance science editor since 2006. He is a biologist with particular expertise in the areas of neuroscience, oncology, and chromatin structure and gene expression. Presently a part-time research associate at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia, Dr. Davies has also been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the François Magendie Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France, and the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia. During his PhD, he examined chromatin structure and cisplatin damage at the human beta-globin gene cluster. Dr. Davies is a regular reviewer for several international journals and has edited numerous manuscripts, as well as a comprehensive textbook on Chromosome Nanoscience, written by both native and non-native English speakers. He has a number of first-author publications in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research and The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Dr Davies has experience in a wide variety of laboratory techniques in molecular and cellular biology.