Tis’ The Season
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE PLATT LAB
*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…
NC3R’s Research Day
Dave, Claire, Hsin, and Joseph attended the Oxford 3Rs Research Day - the event focused on the 3Rs principles of Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement. The 3R's were developed in part to minimize the number of…
Christmas Party
This year the Platt lab celebrated Christmas on the 13th of December. We started the day with a tasty breakfast at The Handle Bar. Then Secret Santa passed by the Department of Pharmacology and left…
New publication
A collaborative team of researchers from the Platt lab and the Isacson lab (McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School) has found that elevated levels of certain types of lipids in the brain, called glycosphingolipids, may be…
Visit by NPSuisse hosted at Academy of Medical Sciences
Christoph and Hanny Poincilit from NPSuisse visited the Academy of Medical Sciences and our lab in Oxford. Please visit their webpage for more information: https://www.npsuisse.ch/en/ From left to right at the Academy of Medical Sciences:…