Phoebe Foster

PhD student

Phoebe is a second-year PhD student investigating the neurodevelopmental aspects of genetic FTD. Phoebe first joined the team in August 2022, working as a Research Assistant within the core GENFI team. Her role as the Site Qualification and Liaison Coordinator involves initiating new GENFI sites across Europe and Canada. Phoebe had previously been a visitor to the team during her undergraduate placement year (2020-21) as part of a BSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Manchester. During this time, she worked on a GENFI project studying loss of empathy in people with FTD.

  • TDP-43 Workshop (Paris, December 2025): Novel digital measures in C9orf72-related FTD/ALS and the NeuroDev study
  • GENFI Investigators Meeting 2025 (Munich, June 2025): An update on cognition in young C9orf72 expansion carriers
  • Pint of Science (London, May 2025): Unraveling the social mind: what happens in frontotemporal dementia
  • GENFI Investigators Meeting 2024 (Barcelona, June 2024): Early cognitive and neuropsychiatric features in C9orf72 expansion families
  • FTD Prevention Initiative Therapeutics Meeting 2023 (Washington DC, September 2023): The state of therapeutics in tau: Results from the MAPT survey
  • FTD Rare Dementia Support Group Annual Meeting 2023 (London, March 2023): An update on frontotemporal dementia research and clinical trials
  • Examining empathy deficits across familial forms of frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. Foster PH, Russell LL, Peakman G, Convery RS, Bouzigues A, Greaves CV, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia C, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tagliavini F, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Danek A, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Cortex. 2022;150:12-28.