Marianne Neary is a speaker for Catholic Voices, which started out as a campaign to represent Catholic views more fairly in the media, but which is now "a school of a new Christian humanism; and a laboratory of a new kind of apologetics."
Marianne Neary studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge with a Science degree in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. She is now a Clinical Medical student at University College London's Division of Medicine. As part of the MBPhD Programme, she spends her time in clinical training at University College London Hospital and research at the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research. Ms Neary is conducting research into metabolic changes in the heart before and after birth, which has implications for high altitude medicine, cot death and heart failure. She also has published research papers in endocrinology, obesity and the evolutionary development of biomineralisation. She writes regularly for “You and Your Hormones” and BioNews, reporting on endocrine diseases and recent developments in genetics, stem cells and reproductive technologies. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Max Perutz and the Guardian Science Writing Prizes, and she has previously won the Society for Endocrinology Writing Prize.