Owen passes his viva!

We've had our second PhD student pass their viva! Owen joined the group in 2018 as the second PhD student, and worked on TDP-43 aggregation. He published several papers in the group, and now has a job with LifeArc. 

Huge thanks go to Colin Campbell and Chris Henstridge for examining him. 




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