Dr. Teresa Niccoli is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, with a specific interest in how these processes link to metabolism and proteostasis, utilising Drosophila as a model organism.
Teresa completed her PhD with Paul Nurse at Cancer Research UK, studying cell polarity and microtubule dynamics in the yeast S. pombe. She continued investigating cell polarity at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge with Daniel St. Johnston. Following a five-year career break to raise her two sons, Teresa resumed her scientific career in 2010 by joining Linda Partridge's lab at UCL. Here, she shifted her focus to Drosophila models of neurodegeneration, continuing this work in Adrian Isaac's laboratory at the UK Dementia Research Institute. She established her group at the Institute of Healthy Ageing as a Senior ARUK Fellow in 2019.