Professor Bronwen Connor (right) is known internationally for pioneering a unique method to create brain cells in a lab using skin cells from people with neurological diseases. In 2022, she began a three-year project, supported by the Neurological Foundation, to use this technique to help solve a long-standing mystery about Huntington's disease (HD). 

Dr Amy McCaughey-Chapman is an emerging neuroscientist working with Bronwen on the project, adding her expertise in cell programming – the step-by-step process of transforming live skin cells into brain cells.