The Newcastle Mito Team are excited to join the global community to raise the profile of mitochondrial and rare disease during World Mitochondrial Disease Week. Are you mito aware? Read…

Last month we reached out to our dedicated @MitoResearch Facebook followers and asked them to help us by choosing their favourite image from a collection kindly provided by members of…

By Dr Lyndsey Butterworth & Dr Laura Smith Euromit, the premier international conference on mitochondrial pathology, saw the global mito community come together in Bologna, Italy for the first time…

Prof Bobby McFarland, Dr Laura Smith and Dr Daniel Erskine from the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research (WCMR) have recently been awarded a project grant (£230,359) from the Great Ormond…

Mitochondrial research is crucial to improve our understanding of many medical conditions due to the important role of mitochondria within the body. This was highlighted in a recent WCMR Science…

Following a recent presentation as part of our WCMR Science Seminar Series, Dr Iffath Ghouri provides an update on her research project that is aiming to identify small molecule therapeutics…

In a recent WCMR Science Seminar, the team were delighted to be given research updates from Dr Chun Chen and Dr Roisin Boggan. Their talks reflect the breadth of mitochondrial…

In a recent WCMR Science Seminar, we heard from Dr Katja Menger who's research focus is investigating the role of new proteins involved in mitochondrial DNA replication and distribution. Here,…

As we continue our Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research (WCMR) science seminar series for 2022-23, we were delighted to hear from Dr Valeria Di Leo and PhD student John Meyrick…

Rare Disease Day 2023 has been a hectic yet hugely rewarding time for the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research (WCMR) team who have been busy raising awareness of mitochondrial disease…