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The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab

Actively doing clinical and lab-based research on both Parkinson's and Huntington's disease at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. NIHR Investigator.

Joined December 2017
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The day is FINALLY here! The green light has been given by Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial with the stem cell therapy STEM-PD for treatment of Parkinsons disease! cam.ac.uk/research/news/clin… @ParmarLab @SCICambridge @BrainRepair_VGB @Kirkeby_Lab

Clinical trial for new stem cell-based treatment for Parkinson’s disease given go ahead

The Swedish Medical Products Agency has granted approval for the trial to proceed; ethical approval has already been obtained from the Swedish Ethics Review Authority. The team, led from Lund...

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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
3 Oct 2024
So excited to share our paper showing how blood neurofilament light levels could help predict proximity to disease onset in #Huntingtons A mammoth 14 year study! A spin off from our sleep work, TL:DR summary below…🧵 @PDandHDLab @HDBuzzFeed link.springer.com/article/10…
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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
29 Oct 2024
Thanks @HDBuzz for this great initiative and for all the amazing work that goes into HDBuzz articles
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28 Oct 2024
We're proud to announce Dr. Zanna Voysey as a 2024 HDBuzz Prize winner! She shares a new study that details racial disparities in HD care and research. Addressing this could improve the lives of people living with HD in the here-and-now. #medical #hdsa #… ift.tt/PeTy0Ab
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Congratulations to both Marta and Maha on their recent graduations.
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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
6 Aug 2024
Thrilled to share the preprint of our 12-year polysomnography study in Huntington's! TL:DR: 1) insomnia affects 90% early stage patients and links to greater cognitive problems and disease activity, independent of disease stage/meds/mood 🧵 @PDandHDLab medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
18 Jun 2024
So much brilliant food for thought at the inaugural glymphatics symposium in Lund! Thank you @GlymphaticConf @DAcharya_
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Roger's article in @F1000Research has been viewed more than 5000 times! Have a read! f1000research.com/articles/9…
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Roger gave a talk last week at the German movement disorder meeting. "Deutscher Kongress fur Parkinson und Bewegungsstorungen".
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Movers & Shakers Podcast - Treatments for Parkinson's discussed by Professor Roger Barker. moversandshakerspodcast.com/… #Parkinsons

Movers & Shakers Podcast | Episodes

Movers and Shakers finds six friends – Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman – gathered in a Notting Hill pub to discuss...

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Caroline’s team shared different approaches on the importance of #immunity in #ParkinsonsDisease at 2024 @immuparknet Annual Meeting in #Belgrade. Lots of potential for fruitful collaborations! @JuliaGreenland @Marta__Camacho
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Members of the Roger Barker and Jo Jones team attending the annual meeting of the EU funded programme of work looking at brain repair and how we can do this better.
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justgiving.com/page/trevor-e…

Trevor's fundraiser for The Centre for Brain Repair at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge

Help Trevor Elliott raise money to support Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust

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Trevor Elliott, a research volunteer with Parkinson's disease, is walking 120km from Newcastle to Carlisle in June to raise money for our research at the John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. If you would like make a donation to support him, please visit his JustGiving page -
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Congratulations to the newest Dr in the house! Well deserved celebrations after many years' great work on the gut-brain axis in Parkinson's @Marta__Camacho
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Marta Camacho@Marta__Camacho
24 Mar 2024
Couldn't be happier with my PhD viva experience, a critical scientific discussion of my PhD work, followed by cake and amazing people that I am lucky enough to call friends.
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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
19 Mar 2024
#barkerlabequestrians reaching critical mass at this year’s lab retreat…! @PDandHDLab
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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
21 Mar 2024
And the view from the top… @PDandHDLab
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Happy World Sleep Day! 🌎 😴 and what a great way to mark it with a whole session dedicated to sleep at #BrainConf2024 with @zanna_voysey presenting our HD-sleep work in the ECR session.
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👏 Well done to our @zanna_voysey for coming 2nd in the ABN movement disorders meeting trainee presentations on Friday! #sleep #neurodegeneration
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Zanna Voysey@zanna_voysey
23 Jan 2024
Slow-wave sleep affects synucleinopathy and regulates proteostatic processes in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease | Science Translational Medicine science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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A very powerful and well written piece that is worth a read around #Huntingtonsdisease @racingdementia telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20…

‘I hope the research we’ve been a part of can be someone else’s miracle’

Phil Williams is one of the 7,000 people in the UK suffering from Huntington's disease

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