Prof Ronald Melki, CNRS At the two-day 7th International Congress of Multiple System Atrophy, PD-MitoQUANT PI of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris Prof Ronald Melki will remotely present "Pathogenicity of α-synuclein strains: The pasta story" on February 26, 2021. The time of Prof Melki's talk is 12:05-12:30 Paris time. Browse the meeting program here. Registration information can be found here. About MSA: Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by autonomic [...]

In the latest version of our newsletter, we share stories from the Parkinson's UK Virtual Research Conference, meet Dr. Alexander Kel of geneXplain and more! You can download the full newsletter here!

On February 17, 2021, PI Prof Ronald Melki of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) will present PD-MitoQUANT research at the upcoming 5. Ulm Meeting themed Biophysics of Amyloid Formation. The title of Prof Melki's  talk is 'Alpha-synuclein assemblies propagation and the molecular basis of distinct synucleinopathies.' The two-day meeting will be hosted by Ulm University in co-operation with the DFG Forschungsgruppe FOR 2969 as well as with SFB 1279, SFB 1035 and the Japan Society for the [...]

Midlands Science partnered with Dr Helena Bonner, a Neuroscientist at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, as well as an Outreach officer at the Centre for Systems Medicine, RCSI to provide informative virtual talks for a number of schools across the Midlands for College Awareness Week.  Dr Helena Bonner of the RCSI presented PD-MitoQUANT and Dr Niamh Connolly's PD-MitoQUANT video as part of a STEM careers promotion roadshow throughout the Midlands of Ireland. The talk entitled "STEM Careers Talks: [...]

We checked in with Richard Campbell, one of our PD-MitoQUANT and Parkinson's UK volunteers, about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on managing Parkinson's. Richard Campbell "Firstly, to give you an idea of my situation: I am 78 years old and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease more than 12 years ago, but like everyone else with the 20:20 vision of hindsight, I had problems before then.  Fortunately, my medication, though steadily increasing, still controls my symptoms well and [...]

Prof Jochen Prehn RCSI On Thursday afternoon, October 22, 2020, PD-MitoQUANT Coordinator Prof Jochen Prehn, of the RCSI participated in a Neuronet roundtable session titled: “Public-private partnerships in the post-COVID era” at the Alzheimer Europe Conference 2020. The international online conference was themed “Dementia in a changing world.”  It assembled people with dementia, their carers, volunteers and staff of patient associations, policymakers, health and social care professionals, researchers, academics and industry representatives from all over Europe and beyond. [...]