Associate Professor Dr Sandrine Willaime-Morawek leads a research group that investigates the role of the microenvironment on the activity of stem cells in the developing, adult or pathological brain. She is part of the Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells & Regeneration and the Southampton Neuroscience Group.Her research interests include the study of early developmental exposure and their effect on later life phenotype and risk factors for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, she uses patients-derived stem cells to model in vitro early development of pathological biochemical features