Bridget obtained her PhD in 2011 from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in Dr. Bronwyn Kivell’s neurobiology lab. She then moved to Boston to be part of Dr. Saumya Das’ lab at the BIDMC and MGH where she studied the role of autophagy in the heart. Bridget joined the Precision Cardiology lab in the CVDi in January 2020 where she is working on identifying new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease.