Karen Anthony

Happy Christmas from our lab. Some projects funded, others not; some papers out, some still need to be written, some PhDs completed and others just beginning. We take the highs with the lows, let's see what 2026 brings...🎄🎅🌲

Congratulations to Dr Jude Krampah for passing his PhD viva today, it was great to be a part of this supervisory team. Jude's thesis explored the prognosic value of balance measurements and salivary biomarkers for declining cognition in older adults 👏 🙌 .

I'm tuning into the International Research Culture Conference #IRCC25 online today. As a PCE pilot panel member, I'm looking forward to hearing the reflections by Steven Hill from Research England.

Celebrating the impact of Ataxia UK-funded research - Ataxia UK Ataxia UK funds research that aims to find treatments and cures for the ataxias. This would not be possible without your continued generosity in donating to support this mission. Thank you to each and...

Great to see our work on RNA trans-splicing highlighted in the 2025 Ataxia UK Research Impact Report. Can't wait to update the field at ICAR2026 with the latest in-vivo data! You can access it here: www.ataxia.org.uk/research-new...

Yay! Yes, we know there are 79 exons and not 97 (oopsie!)

I do not understand these comments and the fact they come from UKRI is unsettling; the most impactful findings can come from the most unexpected places and that impact is often not realised until many years later. And these are the ppl who should be advocating for us!

Just me banging on about trans-splicing (again)

After a spot of sunny sightseeing in Rotterdam, I've arrived in Tiel ready for the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting. Looking forward to connecting and learning from this great brain nation. I'll be kicking off the Thursday genetic therapies session with a talk on RNA trans-splicing 🧠

Yesterday our research centre for Physical Activity and Life Sciences (PALS) held its annual research symposium. Great range of talks/posters from diverse research on athlete safeguarding, green spaces, humans at 50°C: 50% humidity through to pharmaceuticals, gene therapy and biomarkers for disease

Enjoyed being a judge at our PGR poster competition today, congratulations to our very own Jude Krampah who was runner up with work on standing balance as a measure of cognitive function 🎊

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Thanks! Thankfully the university hires them for us, it's all quite easy we just have to register with the info on what uni/degree and sizes. Some do choose to own their own though but it's usually people with degrees from outside UK as often they can't source the correct combibations easily.

Graduation day today for our newest PhD, congratulations Dr Michael Naidoo! His thesis explored the association of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene expression with survival outcomes in cancer.

🚀 New publication alert! Read it fast! 🚀

#RNA #therapeutics for muscular dystrophies are advancing quickly, and keeping up is getting harder (in the best way possible!). Our latest review, co-authored with Andrea López & @oligogirl.bsky.social, covers the latest clinical-stage approaches.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product expression is associated with survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product expression is associated with survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Pleased to share this work out now in @SciReports linking Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene expression to survival outcomes in head and neck cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @drleemachado.bsky.social @drlewisac.bsky.social

Great stuff from our lab on tour in Switzerland this week 👏

Synovial sarcoma: The influence of clinicopathological variables on overall survival in a UK population Synovial sarcoma accounts for 5%–10 % of malignant soft-tissue tumours. Curative treatment includes surgery, with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. Wi…

Delighted to see one of our ProfDoc students have their first study published and a great experience for me being a part of a supervisory team outside my main areas of expertise. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm really excited to be a main session speaker at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting in June, I'll be talking all about RNA trans-splicing in the genetic therapies for brain disorders session: dnm25.azuleon.org/programme

Understanding rare variant contributions to autism: lessons from dystrophin-deficient model - npj Genomic Medicine npj Genomic Medicine - Understanding rare variant contributions to autism: lessons from dystrophin-deficient model

Interesting #NPJGenomMed paper: Understanding rare variant contributions to autism: lessons from dystrophin-deficient model. #DMD tinyurl.com/khus56wk

#Researchfish done! so I'm treating myself to a brisk walk.

A great keynote by Prof. David Coates today at our annual undergraduate student research conference. Congratulations to our fab students, and prize winners! 🥳 I utterly failed to get poster pics, was marking them non-stop!

Neat use of a compartmentalised culture system

18th century amputations: two case reports Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was extremel...

Great work by our Visiting Professor of Child Health and Medical History Andrew Williams, great to have him with us.
bbc.co.uk/news/article.... The paper is published here: adc.bmj.com/content/earl...

Tang et al. present a new deep learning tool, Spliformer, that can predict RNA splicing. Genome-wide analyses using this tool identified intronic variants driving RNA mis-splicing in ALS, while additional functional analyses pinpointed PCP4 as an ALS-associated gene. https://buff.ly/42rayiH

Had the pleasure of presenting @LeicResearch head and neck m&m with @LSJones4 on our head and neck cancer work with @profkarena.bsky.social and Leanne's post-doc working @unibirmingham.bsky.social on the biology of #HPV

I thought that dog was a picture of the structure! This is a really cool paper...holiday reading!

Huge congratulations to Dr Michael Naidoo for defending his PhD thesis today on DMD gene involvement in low grade glioma. We are so proud. Many thanks to examiners Dr Jodie Score and Dr Maria Braoudaki 🎉👏

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Eugh. I'm reminded why I vowed not to use Scientific Reports again, several weeks just to find a handling editor!