Monika Frysz
Monika Frysz in an early career academic and manager of AUGMENT, a £1.6 million Wellcome trust collaborative grant which aims to improve our understanding of how bone shape, size and structure contribute towards the development of common musculoskeletal diseases, such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis using UK Biobank data. In addition, Monika leads the analysis of the largest genetics study of DXA-derived bone mineral density (BMD) for the GEFOS consortium, which aims to identify genes and cell types that regulate BMD at weight and non-weight bearing skeletal sites.
Monika graduated from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2013 with a BSc(Hons) in Biomedical Sciences with a 12-month work placement at Public Health England virology laboratory. Following her undergraduate studies, she took up a position at the North Bristol NHS Trust (2013-2014) and trained as a DXA technician which inspired her to apply for a PhD at the University of Bristol. Her Wellcome trust PhD studentship in Molecular, Genetic and Lifecourse Epidemiology (2014-2018) investigated environmental and genetic influences on hip shape development in adolescents using Statistical Shape Modelling applied to DXA scans in ALSPAC offspring.
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