Miep Helfrich graduated with a MSc in Biology from the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands in 1983. She continued her scientific training as a PhD student at the Department of Cell Biology and Histology at the University of Leiden, where she worked on osteoclast development in osteopetrosis. After gaining her PhD in 1988 she did her first postdoc with Mike Horton at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) in London. She was appointed as post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics in Aberdeen in 1992 working with Stuart Ralston, and was awarded an ARC post doctoral research fellowship in 1997. This was extended in 2001 for 3 years. She was promoted to senior research fellow in 2001 and appointed as senior lecturer in October 2004. In 2009 she was promoted to personal chair in Bone Cell Biology. Since Sept 2011 she is leader of the Musculoskeletal Research Programme at the Universty of Aberdeen (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ims/bone/ ) She is also academic lead of the core facilities for microscopy and histology .
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