Vija is a Senior Anatomy Technician Vija Vilcina Senior Anatomy Technician Anatomy@Edinburgh Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences University of Edinburgh Contact details Email: vvilcina@ed.ac.uk I graduated from Dundee University with BSc (Hons) in Anatomical Sciences and Physiological Sciences. Did whole body dissection on my 3rd year of university. After the graduation I worked as Anatomy technician/prosector in University of Aberdeen anatomy department for almost 5 years. Gained a lot of valuable work experience. After moving to Edinburgh, I worked as Senior Assistant Scientist in private pre-clinical research company as part of in vivo metabolism (ADME) team where I utilised more of my physiology part of degree and worked with various animal models. Was appointed as Health and Safety representative for the department and did IOSH Managing Safely training course which was very beneficial for my role. This article was published on 2024-08-05
