ILAE Gower’s Prize
Earlier this year, we were delighted to share the news that WCMR PhD student Laura Smith, who is funded by The Ryan Stanford Appeal, won the Gowers Medical Student Award…
Earlier this year, we were delighted to share the news that WCMR PhD student Laura Smith, who is funded by The Ryan Stanford Appeal, won the Gowers Medical Student Award…
The first talk of our new WCMR 'Research in Progress' seminar series for 2019-20 was given by Dr Brendan Payne. In his talk, Dr Payne described a new model which…
The Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research regularly invites national and international speakers to give internal seminars at Newcastle University. Post doctoral research associates and students host these sessions and everyone…
The AIMM (Acipimox in Mitochondrial Myopathy) trial is a clinical trial to determine whether a drug, acipimox, can be used to improve muscle symptoms in patients with mitochondrial myopathy (muscle…
Earlier this week, the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research (WCMR) at Newcastle University announced its search to appoint a new Director as successor to Professor Sir Doug Turnbull. This is…
Last month, we were delighted to welcome Dr Bette Phimister, Deputy Editor in Chief at New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), to the WCMR at Newcastle University. During her visit,…
Idebenone is a drug used in the treatment of Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), a mitochondrial disorder that causes vision loss. LHON usually starts with blurred vision in one or…
At the last Young Scientist meeting, PhD students Gareth Ettridge and Polly Usher tackled the topic of drug screening and drug discovery. The session was based around explaining how new…
Last month, first year PhD student Elizaveta Olkhova talked to us about her research project that involves dissecting the molecular mechanisms underpinning hyperexcitable neuronal networks in mitochondrial disease. But what…
Last week, first year PhD student Alex Bury talked to us about his exciting project that uses nanobiopsy to extract mitochondria from live cells. But what exactly does this mean?…