Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD

Neuroscientist 🧠 | Biopharmaceutical Chemist 👩🏼‍🔬 | Science Communications 🧬 | Opinions expressed are my own

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

Thanks again Michelle for all your support and guidance. Delighted to have submitted my hardbound thesis today, the sun even made an appearance ☀️ #PhDone

[Michelle Roche @MRocheLab]

So proud of Dr Rachel Humphrey today submitting her hardbound PhD thesis. Such great thing ahead for Dr Humphrey.

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

Absolutely incredible women. So proud to be Irish 🇮🇪

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

“We couldn’t have done any more.”

So proud of this team.

4th in the Olympics.

National Record.

Absolutely incredible.

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

I am thrilled to share that I successfully passed my PhD viva yesterday!

Officially Dr Humphrey!

Thank you to my brilliant supervisor @MRocheLab. Huge thanks to my incredible husband @LoughnaneKeith, & my wonderful family & friends, for all their support and encouragement ❤️

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

Had a great day yesterday celebrating passing my viva 🥳

And thank you so much to my supervisor @MRocheLab and co-supervisor @DavidFinn14 for all their help and encouragement over the years.

[Michelle Roche @MRocheLab]

Congrats Dr Humphrey. 🎉🍾

So proud of you @RachelHumphrey0 - well done on a great thesis examining mechanisms underlying nociception and pain in Autism

Thanks to Hugo Almeida and John Kelly for acting as thesis examiners.

Great celebrations, proud supervisors 👏👏👏

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

I've voted in the @IEPodAwards for Murder Most Irish - https://t.co/T67pEUpU9x in the Listeners' Choice. Cast your vote at https://t.co/g9RMEN1E6a @MurderMostIrish

[Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @KennysBookshop]

Happy World Book Day one and all! Lá Domhanda na Leabhar shona dhaoibh go léir!
In celebration, we would like to give this bundle of books worth over €200 away to one person. Like, RT, comment or follow us by 9am on Monday to enter. And enjoy your #WorldBookDay!📚

[Channel 4 @Channel4]

This is the incredible moment Lucy, a 13-year-old who is blind and neurodiverse, played a highly-complex Chopin piece, leaving @MikaSounds and @Lang_Lang speechless.

The Piano, presented by @ClaudiaWinkle, starts tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.

Stream Free on All 4. #ThePiano

[Centre For Pain Research @CPainResearch]

We are looking for people with low back pain to participate in our clinical study! #chronicpain #lowbackpain #cannabinoidresearch #Galway 🌱💊🧠https://t.co/zrdXRoDMN2

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

@Sarahfeely11 @uniofgalway Congrats @Sarahfeely11 🥳

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

Really enjoyable session. Thanks again to the ECRN for a chance to present my research today 📄 @MRocheLab @GalwayNeuro @PhysiologyNUIG

[NSI Early Career Researchers Network @YoungNeuroIrl]

A taste of some of the excellent research being carried out by ECRs across Ireland!

[Mary Hopkins @molly_hoppy]

A link to our article in the latest edition by @Irish_PharmNews! It was great to have the opportunity to write about our ongoing research in @uniofgalway @Steph__Bourke @DavidFinn14 @IrishResearch @IrishPainSoc @CPainResearch

[Dr Rachel Humphrey, PhD @RachelHumphrey0]

Congrats Donna 🥳🥳 Doing @PhysiologyNUIG proud 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Donna Kennedy @donnackennedy1]

I am absolutely delighted to have won a Marcus C. Schaub Young Investigator Award for my Oral presentation at #EMC2022! Thank you to the organising chairs for preparing a brilliant conference in the beautiful city of Prague! @PhysiologyNUIG @GalwayCMNHS @IrishResearch

[Christie T @CTPsychResearch]

@uniofgalway #NUIG isn't liking the media attention they're getting. Some fab articles like this from @tffnysmn_ in @CTribune

I'm exhausted. I just want to finish the PhD, but this is a fight that needs fighting for those behind me @PhdsPcau @pgwanuig @pgwa_ie
#AcademicChatter

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

Spending 4 hours reading 8 papers to write 1 sentence.

[Michelle Roche @MRocheLab]

Delighted to host Aoife Doherty a UROP undergraduate student, in our lab over the summer. She has presented her research today examining neuronal activation in discrete brain regions which may account for altered pain responding in ASD. A very talented young researcher.

[Michelle Roche @MRocheLab]

Delighted to present our research on endocannabinoid modulation in models of ASD and the need to consider sex differences at #ICRS2022Galway

@RachelHumphrey0 @AoifeThornton2 @NUIGNeuroCentre @CPainResearch @PhysiologyNUIG @NUIGalwayMed @DavidFinn14

[Michelle Roche @MRocheLab]

@RachelHumphrey0 presenting her PhD research on sensory and pain responding in an ASD model at #ICRS2022Galway
Proud supervisor

@NUIGNeuroCentre @CPainResearch @NUIGalwayMed @ICRS_Society @PhysiologyNUIG

[Michelle Roche @MRocheLab]

Delighted to present the excellent research by @RachelHumphrey0 a PhD in our group on examining pain in autism in preclinical models at #EFIC2022. @Rachel_Fitzp excellent research confirms Pain in Autism is a significant issue in Irish population

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

POV: me trying to understand a paper

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