Congratulations to Maria, who started her prestigious Newton International Fellowship in our lab. The scheme provides the opportunity for the best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world to work at UK research…
Congratulations to Mylene, who won second prize for her poster, titled ‘Glycosphingolipid levels and glucocerebrosidase activities are altered in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease’ at last week’s Oxford Neuroscience Symposium. This annual event was held on Wednesday…
Fran, David and Mylene participated at the Gordon Research Conference Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology in Galveston, Texas. Our former lab member Doris Höglinger also participated and it was great to meet with her again. During…
Fran and Mylene were invited to give a talk at the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch in Botley on the 7th February 2018. Their talk, titled ‘Lysosomes and Enzymes’, informed about new insights into Parkinson's disease…
This year the Platt lab celebrated Christmas on the 6th of December. We started the day with a relaxing breakfast at the Turl Street Kitchen. Then Secret Santa passed by the Department of Pharmacology and left some…
Review from Fran published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery titled 'Emptying the stores: lysosomal diseases and therapeutic strategies.' Please follow link to read the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147032
The NPUK Annual Family Conference & Interactive is a highlight in the Niemann-Pick UK calendar, and as a result is well-known and well-loved by each and every member of our community. Fran Platt and members…
Members of the Platt lab set out on their latest challenge to raise money and awareness for two Niemann-Pick disease charities: NPUK (Niemann-Pick UK) and NPRF (Niemann-Pick Research Foundation).
Paper published in Scientific Reports about the positive effects of inhibition of beta-glucocerebrosidase in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Please follow link to read the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28701774
From the Departmental Newsletter: Congratulations to Mylene Huebecker of the Fran Platt lab and James Bae of the Ming Lei lab who shared last week’s Paton Prize of £250. Mylene’s presentation was entitled ‘Glycosphingolipids relevant…