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Researchers from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) have been paying tribute to Bobbie Coelho, one of the OPDC’s long term fundraisers who has decided to take a step back from active fundraising activities. A video message was created from OPDC researchers thanking her for all the amazing work she has done towards funding Parkinson’s research over the years. Together with a bouquet of flowers, they also gave her an engraved glass OPDC ...
Dayne Beccano-Kelly, an electrophysiologist and Career Development Fellow in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, and part of the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) has spoken to Parkinson’s Life about his experience as a black professional working in Parkinson’s research. The interview coincides with #BlackinNeuroWeek 27-31 July 2020, celebrating Black excellence in neuro-related fields on social media ...
On Sunday 26 April, members of the Wade-Martins Group from the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre threw themselves into a variety of imaginative challenges for the national 2.6 challenge campaign. The challenge required participants to dream up an activity based around the numbers 2.6 or 26 that suits their skills and complete it on Sunday 26 April – when the 40th London Marathon would have taken place. To read more and to view the ...
Milena Cioroch, Research Assistant in the Wade-Martins Lab at the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre, has been awarded Apprentice of the Month for March 2020 by her training provider Abingdon and Witney College. Milena is undertaking a Management training course as part of the University of Oxford Apprenticeships scheme. Read more about her work and how she has developed her career through the ...
Research carried out by George Tofaris and his team has led to the development of a new way to test for Parkinson’s disease before the main symptoms occur. Read more here https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/news/a-new-blood-based-test-to-help-predict-parkinson2019s-disease
To celebrate World Parkinson's Month, Dementias Platform UK focuses on the work being carried out by the Wade-Martins Lab and the OPDC in Parkinson’s and dementia research. Read more: https://www.dementiasplatform.uk/news/world-parkinsons-month-frontier
OPDC Career Development Fellow Dayne Becanno-Kelly, (centre) along with undergraduate student, Natalie Sepke (left), and former OPDC administrator Melanie Witt (right) paid a visit to a local Woodcraft Folk Elfins group to talk about the research carried out by OPDC and to support better understanding of how the brain works. The children aged between 6-9 years listened carefully as Dayne introduced ideas of how the brain works, how sometimes ...
Researchers from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC); Richard Wade-Martins, Dayne Beccano-Kelly, Nora Bengoa-Vergniory, Marta Madureira, Brent Ryan, Matthieu Trigano, Siv Vingill, along with OPDC administrator, Lorraine Dyson, travelled to the Royal Oak, Goodworth Clatford in Andover to take part in a quiz night in aid of Parkinson’s research. During the night of Wednesday 11 December, OPDC supporters Bobbie Coelho, Mary Doherty and ...
Continuing their series celebrating ‘amazing people at Oxford who you should know about’, the Central University's Science Blog talks to Dayne Beccano-Kelly, an electrophysiologist and Career Development Fellow in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, and part of the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre.Read the Central University's Science Blog talks here: ...
Researchers at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre have shown that cell recycling in Parkinson’s may play a more complex role than previously thought. These new results have been published in the journal of Cell Reports. Read the full story on the Parkinson's UK website.
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