Jane Roskams

Jane Roskams
Born	Douglas, Isle of Man
Residence	Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nationality	Manx
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	University of British Columbia
Alma mater	University College of Swansea, Penn State College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Angela Jane Roskams is a neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), she was professor in the Brain Research Centre and directed a laboratory of neural regeneration and brain repair. Roskams also worked at Johns Hopkins Medical School, where she began research to analyse the mechanisms that drive successful regeneration in the olfactory system and underscore the early loss of brain function in Alzheimer's disease. This led her to research examining the interplay between genetics and the environment in shaping how cells in the nervous system develop and adapt.

Roskams was born and raised on the Isle of Man. She attended the University College of Swansea, from which she graduated with a first class honours degree in biochemistry. A graduate scholarship took her to the United States to study journalism at the University of Idaho for her master's studies. Local reporting resulted in her being awarded a Sigma Delta Chi Award for science journalism. She completed her PhD in neuroscience at Penn State University in 1991.

She completed postdoctoral training fellowships in neuroscience and neuropathology at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, before taking up a professorial position at the University of British Columbia. In addition to her appointments in zoology (Faculty of Science) and psychiatry (Faculty of Medicine), Roskams served as an associate dean.

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