The Platt Lab Has Gone Virtual
The Department of Pharmacology has closed due to Covid-19, and the platt lab is now working from home. Everyone is still working hard, balancing home-schooling and other responsibilities with work.
Visiting Professor Junko Matsuda visits Platt Lab
For the past two months, until her trip was cut short due to Covid-19, Junko Matsuda, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Department of Pathophysiology and Metabolism at Kawasaki Medical School in Japan, was visiting the Platt…
ABC2020 FEBS Special Meeting on ABC Proteins
Allie recently attended the 8th FEBS special meeting on ABC transporters - from multidrug resistance to genetic diseases. Allie presented a poster on the interrelationship between ABCA1 and NPC1, as well as gave a poster…
Christmas Party 2019
This year the Platt lab celebrated Christmas on the 12th of December. We started the day with a tasty breakfast at The Handle Bar Cafe. Then Secret Santa passed by the Department of Pharmacology and…
*UPDATE* NPC Challenge
WE DID IT! Raising over £2000 for Niemann Pick Research and Awareness
The Oxford – Santiago de Chile RISE project
On the search for genetic modifiers of lysosomal biology in health and disease! Anyelo Durán, a PhD student from UDD in Santiago, Chile, has joined the Platt Lab in Oxford. This comes shortly after Dr.…
Congratulations to the new graduates!
In back to back PhD defences, Ecem Kaya and Jorge Rodriguez-Gil have both successfully defended their DPhils! Jorge Rodriguez-Gil will now continue as a postdoc at the NIH - National Health Genome Research Institute;…
Congratulations to the new graduate!
Congratulations to Mylene who thrilled her accessors and successfully passed her DPhil Viva!
The Wolf Run for Motor Neurone Disease Association
The Spring Wolf Run on the 13th of April was a hardcore 10k run across raw natural terrain, with open ground, woodland, lakes & thick mud. It was a great opportunity for us to both…