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\n \n\n \n29 June 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for Departmental Research Lecturer Dr Mootaz Salman who has been awarded a prestigious Early Career Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
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\n \n\n \n29 April 2022
\n \n \n \nA collaborative research team led by the Oxford Parkinson\u2019s Disease Centre (OPDC) has been awarded a \u00a33.8 million Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award to study the function of calcium in dopamine neurons, and how this is plays a role in Parkinson\u2019s. Their research will help explain how and why dopamine neurons are vulnerable in the disease and look at how they may be preserved.
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\n \n\n \n28 April 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Charmaine Lang on her conferral of the title of Departmental Research Lecturer.
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\n \n\n \n21 April 2022
\n \n \n \nOn 2 March 2022, Dr Katherine Brimblecombe visited two primary school classes (ages 8-11) as part of their \u201cScience week\u201d. Read her interview to learn more about public engagement with school children in the local Oxford community.
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\n \n\n \n13 April 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Oxford Parkinson\u2019s Disease Centre (OPDC) recently hosted Caroline Rassell, Parkinson\u2019s UK Chief Executive; David Dexter, Associate Research Director; Trustee Board members, Gary Shaughnessy (Chair) and Sally Bromley; together with members of the Parkinson\u2019s UK Oxford Branch committee, for a visit to showcase the research being carried out in Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n11 March 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study from Dr Yanfeng Zhang has uncovered the first evidence that dopamine-dependent long-term potentiation is also gated by the pause of striatal cholinergic interneurons and the depolarisation of the striatal spiny projection neurons. This discovery overturns previous ideas that the phasic dopamine release is the only factor gate corticostriatal synaptic plasticity, thus changing our understanding of dopamine functions in reinforcement learning.
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\n \n\n \n13 December 2021
\n \n \n \nOPDC's Associate Professor Laura Parkkinen, and her team has conducted a study published in Brain, funded by the charity Parkinson\u2019s UK and Weston Brain Institute.
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\n \n\n \n9 December 2021
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Mootaz Salman on his conferral of the title of Departmental Research Lecturer.
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\n \n\n \n26 October 2021
\n \n \n \nA major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson\u2019s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson\u2019s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
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\n \n\n \n26 October 2021
\n \n \n \nA major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson\u2019s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson\u2019s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
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\n \n\n \n26 July 2021
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\n \n\n \n19 July 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the OPDC and the Wade-Martins Group recently moved to brand new laboratory facilities at the Kavli Institute for NanoScience Discovery.
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\n \n\n \n19 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe OPDC is delighted to announce that Parkinson\u2019s UK have agreed to fund a further four and a half years of ODPC Discovery Cohort follow-up from August 2021.
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\n \n\n \n1 March 2021
\n \n \n \nA major building in the centre of Oxford has been constructed to create a new research centre bringing together cellular neuroscience and physical sciences.
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\n \n\n \n16 February 2021
\n \n \n \nA study led by University of Oxford researchers, Dr Brent Ryan and Dr Nora Bengoa-Vergniory has shown that the key protein RE1 Silencing Transcription Factor (REST) regulates the health of those neurons critically affected in Parkinson\u2019s Disease.
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\n \n\n \n4 February 2021
\n \n \n \nA study led by the Oxford Parkinson\u2019s Disease Centre\u2019s (OPDC) Dr Nora Bengoa-Vergniory has shown that a novel assay termed the tau-proximity ligation assay is able to recognise Alzheimer\u2019s disease before current detection methods.
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\n \n\n \n3 December 2020
\n \n \n \nA new institute for nanoscience research is to open in Oxford thanks to a $10 million gift from The Kavli Foundation, the ground floor of which will be home to cutting-edge new research avenues across the six themes of DPAG.
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\n \n\n \n16 October 2020
\n \n \n \nNew Future Leaders Fellow Dr Beccano-Kelly will lead research into synaptic health over time in neurodegeneration. Watch our video interview with Dayne to find out more about his career to date, successful application and future plans.
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\n \n\n \n16 October 2020
\n \n \n \nNew Future Leaders Fellow Dr Beccano-Kelly will lead research into synaptic health over time in neurodegeneration. Watch our video interview with Dayne to find out more about his career to date, successful application and future plans.
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