Emma Cutting our Senior Trial Coordinator is back at work! After her time away, we are all so delighted to see her!
08.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In @thebarkerlabgroup.bsky.social we’re friends as much as colleagues, and horse riders as much as scientists.
This time Miriam and I cranked things up a notch, taking things international…
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01.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Saeed for winning the Parse Neuroscience Single cell grant program!!🎉
Saeed will use this grant to better understand how human microglia interact with allogeneic dopaminergic neurones
03.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement from EHDN Chairs on uniQure’s Topline Results – European Huntington's Disease Network
Following the BBC news article reporting on the uniQure results the EHDN have released a statement from their chairs discussing this. If you are interested to find out who was involved, what we don't yet know and the next steps, see the full statement on their website.
ehdn.org/statement-fr...
30.09.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roger is talking at ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Conference in Phoenix. While out he met Eli the executive director from the WPC. They discussed the 7th WPC Congress happening in Phoenix May 2026 - anyone with an interest in Parkinson's is encouraged to come along!
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29.09.2025 10:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roger responds to exciting trial news on HD as reported on the BBC
Expert reaction to announcement by uniQure of topline results from a phase I/II study of a gene therapy to slow Huntington’s disease progression
See all reactions in Science Media Centre:
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
25.09.2025 12:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roger was at a workshop over the last 2 days in London run by ARIA exploring novel ways to treat disorders of the brain including devices. A great mix of clinical people, biologists and engineers.
24.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roger met with his long standing friend Jihwan Song from Seoul last week when Jihwan was passing through the UK. Jihwan works on stem cells and Huntington's disease and Roger took him out to a traditional pub!
22.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roger was in Zurich yesterday on an appointments committee for a new Professor of Neuroregeneration at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine (background in picture)
17.09.2025 09:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well done Mehak! Today she presented our HD sleep qEEG work at the World Sleep Conference in Singapore.
Her poster was titled 'sleep dysfunction is associated with greater cognitive and affective deficits in neurodegeneration: a 12-year qEEG study in Huntington's Disease'
15.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Congratulations to Jamie Shonhard who helped to organise and run this year's Tulip Fun Run for the Parkinson's UK Cambridge Branch, raising over £6,000👏
A HUGE thank you goes to every runner, walker, donor, and volunteer🎊
The next Tulip Fun Run is proposed for Sunday 12th April 2026, see you there!
10.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Prof Roger Barker completing his talk at the 8th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium - Dopamine Cell Therapies for people with Parkinson’s Disease - Have we succeeded?
See here to find out more about the symposium: neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
10.09.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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