2025 was the inaugural year for the Tony Minson Progression Prize. After 10 months of research, students must write up and defend their first year’s research and future plans in a viva voce (oral examination). Successful students are then registered for their PhD studies.
Al Rawi, Simpson, et al paper featured as in 'Research Highlights: Hidden Gems' by The FEBS JournalEditorial Board!
These are original research articles considered to "provide a significant advance on disease mechanisms and to be of high value to the scientific community. Link.
Welcome to Ting Deng and Daniel Tikhomirov!
Ting and Daniel join the lab part way through their PhD studies. We look forward to their stimulating contributions to our research projects!
Restoring Fbxo7 can reverse straital TH loss in our Parkinson's disease mouse model
Our preprint is up on biorxiv—link
A big welcome to Finn Snow, who started this week working on toxicity effects of PROTACs, in collaboration with Kathryn Lilley (Biochemistry) and Monica Rodriguez (AstraZeneca)
A nice commentary highlighting our recent paper by Sara and Lorna!
Navarro and Esteras have published a lovely Commentary on our work!
Our manuscript is accepted for publication!
Our paper on the effects of a point mutation in Fbxo7 has been accepted in FEBS J. This joint work by Sara and Lorna and our UK and international collaborators characterises the detrimental effects on proteasomes and the mitochondria in the little girl’s fibrobalsts. https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/febs.17114
Congratulations Dr Lin!
Linda has submitted her dissertation and been conferred her PhD degree! And on a Leap day too!