Phoebe Foster

PhD student

Website

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-6598

Phoebe started as a research assistant in August 2022 working within the core GENFI team. Her role as the Site Qualification and Liaison Coordinator involves initiating new GENFI sites across Europe and Canada. Phoebe had previously been a visitor to the team during her undergraduate placement year (2020-21) as part of a BSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Manchester. During this time, she worked on a GENFI project studying loss of empathy in people with FTD. In 2024 she started a PhD investigating the neurodevelopment aspects of genetic FTD.

Invited Talks

FTD Prevention Initiative Therapeutics Meeting 2023 (Washington DC, September 2023): The state of therapeutics in tau: Results from the MAPT survey
FTD Rare Dementia Support Group Annual Meeting 2023 (London, March 2023): An update on frontotemporal dementia research and clinical trials

Posters

AAIC 2023 (Amsterdam, July 2023): Examining longitudinal changes of disease severity scores in familial forms of frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort
ARUK 2021 (virtual, March 2021): Examining empathy deficits across familial forms of frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort

First Author Publications

Examining empathy deficits across familial forms of frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. Foster PH, Russell LL, Peakman G, Convery RS, Bouzigues A, Greaves CV, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia C, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tagliavini F, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Danek A, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Cortex. 2022;150:12-28.