UCL CONSORTIUM FOR MITOCHONDRIAL RESEARCH

The 2nd UCL‐JSPS International Symposium on Mitochondria

Professors Michael Duchen and Kenneth Smith have been awarded a grant from the MS society. 

The grant of £214,000 provides funding for 3 years to 'explore mitochondrial dysfunction and protection in early neuroinflammatory disease by in vivo confocal imaging'.

The MRC's Dr Josef Kittler is one of ten UCL researchers that have received European Research Council (ERC) Starting Investigator grants with a total value of more than £12.4 million.

Prof Michael Duchen has been awarded a project grant from the Parkinson's Disease Society to study 'interactions between mitochondrial biogenesis and complex I inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons' Disease'

Warmest congratulations to Miss Talia Atkin of the UCL Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (NPP), who struck Gold, and a prize of £3,000,  at a competition in the House of Commons for the excellence of her scientific research.

Michelangelo Campanella, Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College and member of CfMR, wins funding through BBSRC New Investigator award. 

Britton Chance was one of the truly great pioneers of 20th century mitochondrial bioenergetics.

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) has won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

The evolution of complex life is strictly dependent on mitochondria, the tiny power stations found in all complex cells, according to a new study by Dr Nick Lane, from UCL (University College London), and Dr William Martin, from the University of Dusseldorf.

Professors Michael Duchen and Francesco Muntoni have been awarded grants to study the cellular mechanisms of a group of muscle diseases called the central core myopathies with a project grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) of $375,000 and a contribution of £69,864 from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (MDC) to supplement and extend a BBSRC funded PhD studentship.

Funding for a Mitochondrial Symposium has been awarded to Dr Takehiro Yasukawa by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), London.

Life Ascending, a history of life on Earth by Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.

Dr Derek Hausenloy Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Heart Hospital and Clinical Lecturer at the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, was awarded a British Heart Foundation Senior Clinical Fellowship. 

Dr Josef Kittler, MRC Senior Fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, has been awarded the Lister Institute Research Prize, one of only three recipients this year.

John Hardy discovered the first defined genetic cause of Alzheimer's disease: a mutation in the APP gene, and framed the amyloid cascade hypothesis for this prevalent disorder.

UCL scientist seeks answers on complex life and origin of species thanks to unique UCL Fellowship award.

The emphasis of the proposed work is to find genes associated with a high risk of developing Parkinson's Disease and to explore the functional consequences of mutations in those genes in cells, animal models and patients.

In the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2010, Professor Salvador Moncada, Chairman of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical research at University College, London, has been knighted for services to science.

Dr Gyorgy Szabadkai has been awarded £270,000 from the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) for research into a gene – named PARK7 – which is linked to certain forms of Parkinson’s disease.