The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab
@PDandHDLab
Actively doing clinical and lab-based research on both Parkinson's and Huntington's disease at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. NIHR Investigator.
The day is FINALLY here! The green light has been given by Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial with the stem cell therapy STEM-PD for treatment of Parkinsons disease! cam.ac.uk/research/news/… @ParmarLab @SCICambridge @BrainRepair_VGB @Kirkeby_Lab
So excited to share our paper showing how blood neurofilament light levels could help predict proximity to disease onset in #Huntingtons A mammoth 14 year study! A spin off from our sleep work, TL:DR summary below…🧵 @PDandHDLab @HDBuzzFeed link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Thanks @HDBuzz for this great initiative and for all the amazing work that goes into HDBuzz articles
We're proud to announce Dr. Zanna Voysey as a 2024 HDBuzz Prize winner! She shares a new study that details racial disparities in HD care and research. Addressing this could improve the lives of people living with HD in the here-and-now. #medical #hdsa #… ift.tt/PeTy0Ab
Congratulations to both Marta and Maha on their recent graduations.
Thrilled to share the preprint of our 12-year polysomnography study in Huntington's! TL:DR: 1) insomnia affects 90% early stage patients and links to greater cognitive problems and disease activity, independent of disease stage/meds/mood 🧵 @PDandHDLab medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
So much brilliant food for thought at the inaugural glymphatics symposium in Lund! Thank you @GlymphaticConf @DAcharya_
Roger's article in @F1000Research has been viewed more than 5000 times! Have a read! f1000research.com/articles/9-862…
Roger gave a talk last week at the German movement disorder meeting. "Deutscher Kongress fur Parkinson und Bewegungsstorungen".
Movers & Shakers Podcast - Treatments for Parkinson's discussed by Professor Roger Barker. moversandshakerspodcast.com/podcast/episod… #Parkinsons
Caroline’s team shared different approaches on the importance of #immunity in #ParkinsonsDisease at 2024 @immuparknet Annual Meeting in #Belgrade. Lots of potential for fruitful collaborations! @JuliaGreenland @Marta__Camacho
Members of the Roger Barker and Jo Jones team attending the annual meeting of the EU funded programme of work looking at brain repair and how we can do this better.
Congratulations to the newest Dr in the house! Well deserved celebrations after many years' great work on the gut-brain axis in Parkinson's @Marta__Camacho
Couldn't be happier with my PhD viva experience, a critical scientific discussion of my PhD work, followed by cake and amazing people that I am lucky enough to call friends.
#barkerlabequestrians reaching critical mass at this year’s lab retreat…! @PDandHDLab
Happy World Sleep Day! 🌎 😴 and what a great way to mark it with a whole session dedicated to sleep at #BrainConf2024 with @zanna_voysey presenting our HD-sleep work in the ECR session.
👏 Well done to our @zanna_voysey for coming 2nd in the ABN movement disorders meeting trainee presentations on Friday! #sleep #neurodegeneration
Slow-wave sleep affects synucleinopathy and regulates proteostatic processes in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease | Science Translational Medicine science.org/doi/full/10.11…
A very powerful and well written piece that is worth a read around #Huntingtonsdisease @racingdementia telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2023…
