Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025

Elaine Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Personalised Medicine (Mental Health) in the School of Medicine at Ulster University.

She received her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences from Ulster University and her PhD in Neuroscience and Behaviour at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she demonstrated that perinatal disruption of histone acetylation leads to long lasting changes in sexually dimorphic regions of the brain.

She then joined the Translational Neuroscience group at the University of Aberdeen as a research fellow, where she worked on the genetic basis of major mental illness as part of a Pfizer Neuroscience Grand Challenge project.

Elaine returned to Northern Ireland in 2013 to take up her current post within the Personalised Medicine Centre. Elaine's current research focuses on identifying novel biomarkers to improve diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Elaine is a council member of Neuroscience Ireland, Northern Ireland local group representative for the British Neuroscience Association and recently led a CHITIN project investigating mental health among at-risk young people in a cross-border region funded by the EU’s INTERREG VA Programme.