Calling all neuroscience health entrepreneurs 📢 Don't miss Open Coffee Cambridge on 03 October. One of the organisers is our very own Tasneem Khatib. Book your place today: luma.com/sxlcnw6q Fri 3 Oct | 8:00 - 10:30 | the Glasshouse

#LovePostdocs | Sarah Howlett, Jo Jones lab. "Beyond her scientific achievements, Sarah is a generous and supportive colleague, consistently stepping in when others are unwell or facing difficulties,” said Professor Joanne Jones in her nomination.

#LovePostdocs Dr Nick Haywood, SOUND Lab “I’ve found Nick’s support to be absolutely invaluable. I am a mature, part-time student and often face challenges with programming ... His guidance makes a real difference in my academic journey,” said Carolina Leal in her nomination.

#LovePostdocs Henry Barrow- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research "In addition to his excellent research outputs Henry commits a lot of time to helping train new students in the lab. He is a very attentive and is a patient teacher," said Prof Janet Deane.

#LovePostdocs | The next in our incredible postdocs this week is Mehtap Bacioglu in the Spillantini lab.  Mehtap works on human neurodegenerative diseases, primarily #Alzheimer’s disease, and researches the mechanisms of disease and possible therapeutic avenues of intervention.

Congratulations to James Shonhard! 👏 Jamie helped organise and run the Tulip Fun Run/Walk for the Parkinson's UK Cambridge Branch. Cambridge Mayor Dinah Pounds attended and 20 participants helped raise over £6,000 for the local branch 🎊 @barkerlab.bsky.social

#LovePostdocs - Yanyan Zhao is a Post-doc in the Prof. Franklin Aigbirhio group. Her team works on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging tracers linking chemists and biologists. It involves in-vitro screening of chemical compounds for their binding to protein targets.

#LovePostdocs Emma Wilson is a postdoc working in the the Coleman Lab. Their lab studies a molecular pathway known as Programmed Axon Degeneration or Death (PAD) and has been pushing in recent years to understand the relevance of PAD in human neurodegenerative diseases.

It’s Postdoc appreciation week in the UK. We wanted to say thankyou to the postdocs in our labs that make our work possible. We asked staff to nominate wonderful colleagues or the research they feel matters. We are sharing their nominations and posts with you each day #LovePostdocs

🎧 Podcast: Listen to "Hope for myelin repair. How stem cells could change the future of progressive MS" with Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti. #MS. ms-perspektive.de/en/129-luca-...

World leading research and a walk to the beach! We are delighted to share this fab set of team photos from the Jakobsson ASAP team when they met in Sweden! This international research project explores transposable elements as a trigger of neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s Disease.

A new total-body PET scanner to be hosted in Cambridge. One of only a handful in the country, it will transform our ability to diagnose and treat a range of conditions in patients and to carry out cutting-edge research and drug development. Find out why this is so important: https://bit.ly/3HxkY8m

Researchers have found a way to 'freeze' brain cancer cells in place – stopping them from spreading 🧠 Early-stage results could pave the way to a new treatment for glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive brain cancer, say scientists @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social 👉 https://bit.ly/3JFukj7

📢 Join our team: we're hiring for a Senior HR Co-ordinator. Share or check out the link below if you want to support the best neuroscience research with your HR skills! Closing date: 11th September 2025 Interview date: 24th/25th September 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...

This is amazing news!! @camneurodept.bsky.social @mrc-mbu.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social @ritahorvath.bsky.social @mito-news.bsky.social

➡️ One for all our immunology specialists. This year's Cambridge Immunology Forum, and Joanne Jones from our department is one of the speakers ...

Congratulations to Tabitha and Charlotte , about to defend their MPhil in @camneurodept.bsky.social, and to Melika, who will present her Master's thesis at Università di Pavia. A pleasure having you in the lab—best of luck with all the exciting challenges ahead!

🧠✨ Congrats to Dr Smriti Agarwal on her 5-year British Heart Foundation fellowship! Her AI-driven research with brain scans & health records aims to improve stroke outcomes. Big things ahead! The project started out with @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social Accelerate Science programme 🔬

📢 We are hiring a Senior Research Associate in Bioinformatics & Statistical genetics @cam.ac.uk @mrc-mbu.bsky.social @camneurodept.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social It's a great time to join this dynamic and world leading team working on #mitochondria Closes 28/8/25 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...

Congratulations to PhD student Natalia Owen for her Stroke Association Postgraduate Fellowship. She researches #CADASIL, which affects the small blood vessels in the brain and can lead to #stroke. Her goal is to discover early warning signs of the disease and clues for targeted treatments.

📢 🎧New podcast alert: Stefano Pluchino features in Repair, Reset, Reimagine: Stem Cell Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis. Listen now ⬇️ Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... MS Living Well: www.mslivingwell.org/2025/07/22/s...

We are delighted to share that Daniela Soares Régua, a multiple sclerosis nurse specialist, has been awarded an Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (ACT) Fellowship and will be embarking on a PhD within the Multiple Sclerosis Personalised Treatment Group at the University of Cambridge. #MS

Neural stem cell therapy repairs myelin in MS mouse model: Study Research suggests potential new way to treat progressive forms of disease multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/news-posts/2...

How can AI fast-track the search for better Alzheimer’s treatments? Zoe Kourtzi from @campsydept.bsky.social used AI to reanalyse a clinical trial and found a group of patients who responded – showing 46% slower cognitive decline. Find out more 👇 bit.ly/3GPUgHu

Very cool news and video about UK BioBank's whole body imaging project. One of our scientists, Tim Rittman has been using the data to identify subtle early cognitive changes years before a diagnosis of dementia. So this is already having an impact on major research🔬

Positive news today in the BBC for patients with CADASIL, a rare condition that can cause cause early-onset #stroke. A 23 year study has shown outcomes have improved due to better care and awareness. Read about it in the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congrats to Dr Md Shafiqur Rahman who has received an award of £379,568 from @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social. The award will help identify genetic risk factors for age-related cognitive function, with data from healthy individuals in the @nihrbioresource.bsky.social. #research #alzheimer's

Next in our Research Stories series we hear from Dr Emma Wilson, Postdoctoral Associate in @camneurodept.bsky.social, who shares her research into understanding the causes of neurodegenerative diseases at a cellular level.🔬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nohu...

🧠Breakthrough in MS research! A Cambridge study shows neural stem cell grafts can remyelinate MS-like lesions in mice, opening new possibilities for progressive MS treatment. Published in #Brain. #Neuroscience #StemCells #MSResearch #RegenerativeMedicine www.news-medical.net/news/2025070...

An @cam.ac.uk study published in Brain shows stem cell grafts can restore myelin in #MS lesions in mice. This holds promise for chronic demyelinating disorders & progressive multiple sclerosis. Congrats to @lpjlab.org @pluchinolab.bsky.social The paper: academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

🎾 One of our PhD students hit the match point that secured the @cam.ac.uk Women’s Tennis Team Varsity win! Congrats to Weronika Forys, who kindly shared this video with us. When she is not playing tennis she is a neuroscientist 🧠 in the Malpetti Lab at the Cambridge @ukdri.ac.uk!

What is research life like as a Cambridge PhD student? 🔬 We spoke to Pranathi Prasad from @pluchinolab.bsky.social following her well-deserved win of CSAR student award for applied research in #MS. @restorems.bsky.social ➡️ Read our Q&A with Nathi www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-stu...

We’re pleased to support a new PhD student in @camneurodept.bsky.social who’s using donated brain tissue and advanced brain scans to reveal how inflammation and tau damage synapses in PSP. She hopes this will lead to treatments that slow or stop the disease.‬‬‬‬‬

@nihr.bsky.social awarded over £3 million to 35 cutting-edge medical technologies to tackle #braininjury These projects are set to transform the prevention, diagnosis, management and recovery of Acquired Brain Injury. Find out more: www.nihr.ac.uk/news/over-ps...

Join us on Thursday 24 July 2025, 12:00-13:00 at the Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre. We are delighted to be hosting Anna Kajaste-Rudnitski from the University of Pavia for our next lunchtime seminar.

Lovely piece from the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social about our Senior Ophthalmic Technician Riddhima, & the work she does in the clinical vision lab at the @cambridgebrc.bsky.social NIHR Cambridge CRF! www.mssociety.org.uk/support-and-... @dwong47.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @camneurodept.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Marta Camacho whose presentation on how she used #PPI focus groups to support her #PD research was voted best of the morning's talks at last week's Cambridge PPI Showcase @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk @angliaruskin.bsky.social See Marta on YouTube bit.ly/43PWOOO 1/3

FTD is the leading cause of dementia in under 65s. ASPIRE-FTD is a trial recruiting in Cambridge to investigate a therapy that could stop FTD progressing by repairing a gene in the brain: progranulin (GRN). Read more in The Guardian ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #FTD #Dementia

Congratulations to Gita Khalili Moghaddam! Named one of the top 13 women changemakers in the UK by @royalsociety.org You can read her story and the stories of other 12 amazing women here: royalsociety.org/-/media/abou... #WomenInSTEM

Huge congrats to @pluchinolab.bsky.social mentees @telencephale.bsky.social & Cory Willis who are taking their groundbreaking research tothe Department of Neuroscience at the U_Arkansas College of Medicine as tenure-track assistant profs!!! #Neuroscience #Mentorship #Proudmentor

A huge thanks to our PhD student panellists Danielle Brister, Claudia Smith, Katherine Birditt & Dilsad Onal. Today they spoke on the student experience here to see how we can make improvements for all our students. It was a really informative session with great insights!

Honored to be the 2025 Petit Family Visiting Professor in #MS at @uconnhealth! Looking forward to connecting with colleagues. Excited to share & learn! #MultipleSclerosis #Research #UConnHealth

We work with many innovations. To support their development, we ensure that people who use them have a say. @thepiercy.bsky.social wrote this #PPI paper. Read the summary article on the CUH website: tinyurl.com/cuh-ppie-dev..., or read the paper here: tinyurl.com/ppie-paper #braininjury #involvement

Emmanuel Stamatakis is an author on one of New England Journal of Medicine's top 14 papers of 2024 on “cognitive motor dissociation.” Approx. 1 in 4 participants without an observable response to commands performed a cognitive task on fMRI or EEG ➡️https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2400645

Join us for a neuroscience seminar tomorrow (29 May) with Philip Hasel from the @ukdri.ac.uk Edinburgh - revealing more about the role of astrocytes in the brain. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

This September sees the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium – Interventions & Recovery, run by @CamNeuro - fantastic lineup of speakers, including our own Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

🚨New vacancy at @cam.ac.uk🚨 The Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge is looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor and Course Director for the new MPhil in Translational Medical Research. 📩 Apply by 22 June:

📅 Innovation Breakfast: Thurs 12 June, 8:30-9:30 Dr Michael Jones, CEO of Cell Guidance Systems, will cover some of the science behind his company’s use of CAR-T cell therapy, as well as his innovation journey and what he hopes to achieve next. cambridge-biomedical.com/event/cbc-in...

Congratulations to UK DRI Centre Directors Profs Mina Ryten & Jernej Ule, who have been elected to the prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship for their exceptional research into neurodegenerative conditions👏 Read more about Mina & Jernej👉https://buff.ly/573DuDD

Breakthrough for Global Movement to recognise Traumatic Brain Injury: Pakistan is sponsoring this crucial initiative to get TBI listed as a recognisable health condition world-wide ➡️https://www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/breakthrough-global-movement-recognise-traumatic-brain-injury