Following a term at the University of Michigan in 1927, she was appointed Acting Professor of Histology and Neurology at the American University of Beirut from 1928 to 1929.[1] During this time she collaborated on publications with A. S. Parkes and Francis Brambell.[2] On returning to London, she worked with Romanian scientist and Rockefeller research fellow Grigore T. Popa, discovering the vascular link between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.