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Grant Success for Alpers’ Researchers

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:May 22, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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…

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Using Mitochondrial DNA Mutations to Monitor Bladder Cancer

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:April 18, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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…

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Calcium Imaging to Identify Small Molecule Therapeutics for Mitochondrial Disease

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:April 18, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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…

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WCMR Science Seminar Update

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:April 6, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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…

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Using sequencing to probe mtDNA transcription and replication

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:April 3, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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,…

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WCMR Science Seminar Update

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:March 28, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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…

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Rare Disease Day 2023 Round Up

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:March 23, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

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…

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Liz Twist MP Supporting Mito Research

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:February 27, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

The WCMR team from Newcastle University and the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust would like to offer their sincere thanks to Liz Twist MP who, as chair of the…

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Reflecting on an International Laboratory Placement.

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:February 1, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

Dr Shane Bell, who has been part of the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research (WCMR) team at Newcastle University for 6 years, was recently offered the exciting opportunity to spend…

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Investigating Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Brain Cells

  • Post author:newcastle
  • Post published:January 24, 2023
  • Post category:Recent News

Dr Elizaveta Olkhova recently presented at our WCMR science seminar series about her research that involves investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in brain cells (neurons) as part of a human neuropathological study…

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