Congratulations to Gokhan, who won the Huygens Imaging Contest 2017. Huygens is a Dutch company working on software development for deconvolution and advanced light microscopy. The prize winning image shows the filopodia of human Niemann-Pick…
We made it! The Tough Mudder London West (12 miles of mud & obstacles) on 7th May was an excellent, but very challenging, opportunity for us to gain some fitness during the training sessions and fund-raise for a good cause at the same time.
Fran and some members of the Platt lab participated in the Gordon Research Conference on Lysosomal Diseases in Il Ciocco in Italy.
Mylene organised a successful cake and mulled wine event in her Department and helped to raise £250 for Parkinson’s UK...
The whole Platt Lab was getting into the Christmas Spirit on the 8th December.
Paper published in Wellcome Open Research on pathogenic mycobacteria achieving cellular persistence by inhibiting the Niemann-Pick Type C disease cellular pathway.
We made it! There was a lot of pain and a lot of blisters, but we finished our walk!
Paper published in Science Translational Medicine on heat shock protein-based therapy as a potential candidate for treating the sphingolipidoses.