Aikta Sharma

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About Aikta Sharma

I am a highly motivated and passionate postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in Biological Sciences (University of Southampton, 2021) and Masters in Biomedical Science (First Class Hons, University of Southampton, 2017), with 5+ years of extensive research, project management, data analysis and interpretation experience in multidisciplinary projects involving biological science, chemistry, physics and engineering. Throughout my PhD and academic research positions, I have gained numerous technical and transferable skills which have resulted in a number of first-author publications in leading journals in the field of musculoskeletal biology, invitations to present my research in both national and international conferences, new investigator prizes, grants in addition to a number of international collaborations. I enjoy generating and further developing new ideas and learning new skills to directly address clinical challenges linked to skeletal disorders driven by the extracellular matrix. Specialties: Research, skeletal pathology, innovation, cell biology, biochemistry, tissue culture, imaging and imaging analysis, writing, presenting and collaboration.