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Staff Profile

Inas Natasya Harding

Laboratory Technician

  • Email: inas.natasya@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
    Framlington Place
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE2 4HH
Background

Previously worked in R&D and QA/RA at biotech companies QuantuMDx and Leica Biosystems. Worked in the NHS Lighthouse Lab as a Senior Scientist during the peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Taught GCSE Triple Award Science and A Level Biology.

Originally from Indonesia, but moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1999.

Academic Background

  • 2019 - PGCE in Secondary Science Education with Biology Specialism - University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
  • 2017 - MRes in Medical Genetics - Newcastle University, United Kingdom
  • 2016 - BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science - Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Research

Previously worked as a Research Technician within Newcastle University on a LifeArc funded project, lead by Dr Giles Holt, working on target enrichment and long read sequencing of the RCA cluster using Oxford Nanopore Technologies. The aim was to develop and optimise a novel diagnostic approach for genetically challenging rare diseases, namely Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS).

This project ran alongside working under Joris Veltman within the Male Infertility Genomics Research group at the Institute of Biosciences, using long read whole genome sequencing and other NGS technologies to identify variants of interest.

Publications