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Congratulations to our member Divya Chari who has been invited to contribute to a strategic Global Health Innovative & Advanced Treatments Workshop, organised by the @ukri.org Medical Research Council UK!

Congratulations to Eve McCallion, a Senior Research Technician in our member's Melissa Bowerman's lab, that was shortlisted as a finalist in this year's Lab Awards in the category of Lab Technician of the Year (lnkd.in/dbjKFJ5d)!

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Last month, our member Claire Monroy had the fanstastic opportunity to give a talk on "Neural correlates of visual processing in deaf infants" at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (2025.neurolang.org) meeting in Washington D.C. Well done!

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Congrats to Ian Holt, a Research Associate in our member Heidi Fuller's group, who won first prize at the Neuromuscular Study Group meeting in Stresa (Italy) for his poster on Characterising PMP22 proximal partners in a Schwann cell model of CMT1A. Well done!

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Congrats to our member Divya Chari who will be chairing the 2026 UK Multiple Sclerosis Society Career Development Awards round (PhD Fellowships & Early Career Fellowships)!

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Research meeting attendees facing speaker Sharon Owen at the podium and introduction slide on spinal muscular atrophy.

Our members Sharon Owen & Heidi Fuller were at the Neuromuscular Study Group meeting in Stresa (Italy) last week where Sharon delivered an excellent flash talk presentation on using omics to identify severity-specific differences in spinal muscular atrophy!

Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman engaging with the SMA community to share research updates and exchange important topics for individuals living with SMA and their families!

Great to see another successful graduate student from our member's group Melissa Bowerman. All the best to Katie as she pursues her medical career!

Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman share her research on biomarkers in SMA at the Ottawa International Conference on Neuromuscular Disease and Biology at the beginning of the month!

What an exciting oppotunity to join our member's (Melissa Bowerman) research group as a Research Assistant to work on spinal muscular atrophy project!
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Well done to our member Heidi Fuller who was an invited speaker at the Ottawa NMD 2025 meeting where she presented thoughts on precision medicine for SMA.

Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman sharing her research on the rare skeletal dysplasia Acrodysostosis Type 2 at this internationally recognised meeting on bone research!

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Well done to our member Hady Atef who has been awarded the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) Widening Participation Award to present a poster on end-of-life care at the CSP Conference in Newport this November. We can't wait to hear how it goes!

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Huge congrats to our member Hady Atef who was recently awarded a @nihr.bsky.social NIHR PASF fellowship for a 1-year research project to investigate the sleep impact on the rehabilitation management plans. Well done!

Our member Jenny Shin is hosting the 13th annual meeting of Mercia Stem Cell Alliance @keeleuniversity.bsky.social on December 3rd 2025. The one-day stem cell meeting will be held at Keele Hall. More info on the event, abstract submission & registration found here: estore.keele.ac.uk/conferences-...

Fantastic to see our member Melissa Bowerman present her SMA research programme in Kunming China!

Huge congratulations to our member Melissa Bowerman for receiving this prestigious & competitive funding to support her research on metabolism defects in spinal muscular atrophy!

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Our members Melissa Bowerman, Divya Chari, Chris Adams and Stuart Jenkins, along with other colleagues from the @keeleuniversity.bsky.social School of Medicine, welcome medical students from RCSI-Bahrain to join their research labs for the summer! Hope you all have an amazing time!

Congratulations to our members Divya Chari and Chris Adams who have been awarded a place on the Innovate-UK funded iCURe Exploit scheme and are now one step closer to getting their "BrainMix" research commercialised!
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Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese and her team for winning best poster at the Awake Craniotomy Symposium in Bristol!

Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman sharing her research on muscle and metabolism in SMA to SMA families and people living with SMA!

Exciting to see our member Melissa Bowerman get the opportunity to present her research on SMA and skeletal muscle internationally!

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First day of the 2025 Cure SMA Annual SMA Research & Clinical Care Meeting was full of exciting new research and discussions with academics, clinicians & individuals living with SMA! Looking forward to day 2!

We are pleased to inform you that registration and abstract submissions for @sma-europe.bsky.social 5th International Scientific Congress on SMA, taking place in Budapest from 11 to 14 March 2026, are now open!
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1st International Clinical Care Symposium on SMA

Last chance to register (attend online or in person) and/or submit an abstract to @sma-europe.bsky.social 1st International Clinical Care. Deadline is June 15th!
Registration: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg....
Abstract submission:
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Huge congratulations to our member Melissa Bowerman for her promotion to Professor! Well done!

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Our member Jenny Shin recently shared her exciting research on "Fine-tuning of SHH and WNT signalling to generate Parvalbumin-expressing cortical interneurons from human pluripotent stem cells" at the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London! Well done!

Congratulations to our member Heidi Fuller for her recent appointment as an Associate Non-Executive Director on the board of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH)!

Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese and her colleagues at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) for being designated as a regional centre of excellence for neuro-oncology by the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission (TJBCM)!
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Genomic landscape of diffuse glioma revealed by whole genome sequencing Diffuse gliomas are the commonest malignant primary brain tumour in adults. Herein, we present analysis of the genomic landscape of adult glioma, by whole genome sequencing of 403 tumours (256 gliobla...

Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese from UHNM for co-authoring this exciting study in @natcomms.nature.com reporting whole genome sequencing of >400 adult gliomas, revealing key genetic mutations and potential therapeutic targets!
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