Ruya Abdulsalam

MSc BSc

DPhil Candidate

• I am a DPhil student in the Health Behaviours team researching interventions to mitigate the risk of type 2 diabetes following a pregnancy affected by gestational diabetes. I am also an Athena Swan DPhil representative for the department.
• I completed my Master's in Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London, where I researched the effect of maternal malnutrition on fetal neurogenesis and was awarded the Faculty of Medicine Dean's Prize for Reproductive and Developmental Biology.
• During my BSc in Applied Medical Sciences at University College London, I investigated the potential of using antiphospholipid antibodies in predicting cardiovascular morbidities in systemic lupus erythematosus patients.