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Poster for Autophagy in London public lecture

Public lecture: The autophagy signaling network, c-­‐myc and pathology: don't mess with the cell cycle!

You are invited to a public lecture by Francesco Cecconi, an eminent scientist in the field of autophagy and neurodegeneration, on Thursday the 25th of April at 17:00, in the lecture theatre of 33 Queen Square, University College Hospital London, WC1N. The lecture will be followed by a general discussion with drinks and food. More...

Link to film: Brain Disease Research - Keeping You You

Video: Brain Disease Research - Keeping You You


Have you ever wondered how scientists research the brain? Have you wondered who digs through that beautiful mass of grey matter between our ears to understand how it works and why it stops working? Meet the Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and MRC, this team of scientists from around the globe investigates Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Diseases. The team is on the hunt for understanding and treatments for brain diseases. More...

Degenerating Brains public symposium - 13th March 2013

Video: Degenerating Brains public symposium


The "Degenerating Brains" public symposium was held on the 13th March 2013, as part of Brain Awareness Week. Around 250 people showed up to hear Professors John Hardy (UCL), Chris Shaw (KCL) and David Rubinsztein (Cambridge) discuss new discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases and how they might impact drug treatment. More...

Colour-enhanced image of a mitochondrion showing the internal membranes (cristae) and enzyme complexes. Credit Dr David Furness, Wellcome Images.

Mutations in VCP gene implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases

New research, published in Neuron, gives insight into how single mutations in the VCP gene cause a range of neurological conditions including a form of dementia called Inclusion Body Myopathy, Paget’s Disease of the Bone and Frontotemporal Dementia (IBMPFD), and the motor neuron disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). More...

Poster for Degenerating brains: new research into Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Disease

Public lectures: new research into Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Disease

You are invited to an evening (13th March 2013) exploring the very latest in cutting edge research into neurodegenerative diseases. Supported by the Wellcome Trust, scientists investigating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron disease will explain how our understanding of these disorders is changing in the light of new discoveries in genetics and cell biology, and how these discoveries impact on developing new drugs for these diseases.

18.00 Welcome and introduction

18.10 Lectures commence

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Centre-de-Physiopathologie-de-Toulouse-Purpan (CPTP)

The Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse-Purpan (CPTP) was created by INSERM in 2002 as a multidisciplinary biomedical research center to gather different INSERM units, all located within the Hôpital Purpan campus, working in Immunology, Genetics, cell signaling and cancer. At that time, this was viewed as a pilot initiative to help developping/fostering the interaction/collaboration between the teams and, more importantly, providing the critical mass needed to define a site research strategy supporting and facilitating the establishment of the needed common core facilities. Five years later, in 2007, a scientific review of CPTP took place. The assessment was positive both considering the center as a whole and the individual teams and therefore the support to this whole operation was renewed. The development of CPTP since 2007 went along and in parallel with a more in-depth reorganization of the Toulouse biomedical research landscape, very actively supported by the Toulouse III University Paul Sabatier. Thus, a second INSERM research center, Institut de Médecine Moléculaire de Rangueil, was created in 2007 gathering the research units located in another medical campus of Toulouse, the one of Hôpital Rangueil. This center is devoted to research on metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

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