PD-MitoQUANT PI Dr Ronald Melki of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS was an invited speaker at the International Symposium on Neurodegenerative Diseases organized by the University of Texas Southwestern O’Donnell Brain Institute in Dallas, Texas and the Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium. The meeting took place on October 24 and 25, 2019 at the T. Boone Pickens Biomedical Building, NG3.11. Ronald's talk entitled "Prion-like propagation of alpha-synuclein and Tau assemblies in synucleinopathies and tauopathies" was [...]

PD-MitoQUANT partners at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière recently co-authored a study entitled "The PINK1 kinase-driven ubiquitin ligase Parkin promotes mitochondrial protein import through the presequence pathway in living cells." in Scientific Reports on August 14, 2019. This work was undertaken by M. Jacoupy, E. Hamon-Keromen, A.Ordureau, Z. Erpapazoglou, F. Coge, J.-C. Corvol, O. Nosjean, C. Mannoury laCour, M. J. Millan, J.A. Boutin, J.W. Harper, A. Brice, D.Guedin, C.A.Gautier and O. Corti. Congratulations to the team! "Most of over a [...]

On September 3, 2019, PD-MitoQUANT PI Dr Ronald Melki, Team Leader of the Protein misfolding and aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases group at CNRS delivered the keynote lecture at the 4-day SYNUCLEIN meeting.  Following on from the keynote talk, Ronald chaired a round table discussion titled: Alpha-synuclein aggregation: how does it happen? Participants at the table included Daniel Otzen, Ronald Melki and Hilal Lashuel. The 2019 meeting which took place in Ofir on the outskirts of Porto in Portugal was themed [...]

A review was recently published in the Journal of Neurochemistry which acknowledged PD-MitoQUANT research funding. "α‐synuclein oligomers and fibrils: a spectrum of species, a spectrum of toxicities" authored by a team consisting of Parvez Alam, Luc Bousset, Ronald Melki and Daniel E. Otzen appeared in the 29 June 2019 issue. Ronald and Luc are PD-MitoQUANT PIs from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the CNRS in France.  Download the open access paper here. Congratulations to all!  

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A few questions were posed to PI Prof Dr Donato (Dino) DiMonte to gain his views on his work in Parkinson research and PD-MitoQUANT, in general. Dino is a senior researcher and leads the Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection in Parkinson’s Disease Group at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). Please describe your day to day work. It is difficult to describe a “typical” day of work. Most of the time, our working schedule involves specific tasks that vary from day [...]

The 5th World Parkinson Congress (WPC) was held in Kyoto, Japan from June 4– 7, 2019. More than 3,000 people from more than 60 countries attended the meeting. At this meeting, Dr Ronald Melki of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and PD-MitoQUANT PI presented: "What is alpha-synuclein- The biology". Through Ronald's talk, PD-MitoQUANT funding was acknowledged. Dr Ronald Melki, CNRS at WPC 2019 The WPC 2019 hosted an international, interdisciplinary forum showcasing the most important [...]

Beckie Port "From innovation to better treatments" is the title of a blog post published on 27 May 2019 by Dr Beckie Port. Beckie is Research Communications Manager at PD-MitoQUANT partner Parkinson's UK. This blog entry announces partnerships with two pan-European, IMI-funded research projects: PD-MitoQUANT and Neuronet. In it, Beckie describes how these collaborative projects aim to accelerate research and deliver new treatments for Parkinson’s. Read the full blog post here.    

PD-MitoQUANT PI Ronald Melki of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) recently delivered the plenary lecture of the Frontiers in Neuroscience session of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) annual meeting on May 8, 2019, in Philadelphia, USA. Through his talk, PD-MitoQUANT funding was acknowledged. More than 3000 were in attendance. The theme of the 71st AAN annual meeting was "Advancing Neurology, Advancing You". It was held May 4- 10th. The meeting offers unparalleled opportunities for professional and personal advancement [...]