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A new collaborative study from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre led by Professor Stephanie Cragg and Dr Bradley Roberts has revealed that GABA transporters on astrocytes, the brain's lesser known yet critically important cells, support dopamine release and are sites of early dysfunction in parkinsonism. Read the full story on the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics's website ...
A collaborative study led by the OPDC's Dr Nora Bengoa-Vergniory has shown that compounds known as molecular tweezers could become a promising disease modifying therapy for Parkinson’s. A team of researchers has shown that tiny compounds known as molecular “tweezers” could become a promising therapy to slow Parkinson’s. This new kind of drug works by pulling apart toxic clumps of protein that form in the brain during ...
OPDC Career Development Fellow Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly has been selected by The World Parkinson Coalition (WPC) to be one of eight Science Ambassadors in the two years leading up to the 6th World Parkinson Congress in June 2022. The WPC Ambassadors will be promoting a premiere Parkinson’s learning experience for scientists, working to bring the Parkinson's community together to advance both the clinical and research goals of discovering new ...
New results from a collaborative Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre and Cardiff University study on the cellular origins of Parkinson's could be key to developing new treatments. Scientists have uncovered new insights into the origins of Parkinson’s. The team, from the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University and the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre, studied the genes of more than 6,000 cells from a region deep in the ...
OPDC's Career Development Fellow Natalie Connor-Robson was the first generation in her family to go to university and is now delighted to be sharing STEM career advice with students taking part in the In2scienceUK programme. Read the full story on the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics's website here: www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/natalie-connor-robson-widens-access-to-STEM-in2scienceuk
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
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