GTAC News
May 2025: Another exciting day, the second Internal Pan-UCL Symposium focused on AAV gene therapy developments, the full day involved talks on vector development, preclinical studies and clinical experience with two interactive workshops.
September 2024: Congratulations to Dr Jo Ng promoted to Professorial Research Fellow, and Dr Haiyan Zhou promoted to Professor of Genetic Medicine. Congratulations to all staff who have been awarded a 2024 promotion in this year's promotions round. (Professor Jo Ng and her team).
June 2024: Our first Pan UCL AAV Symposium 2024 was a full day packed with vibrant speakers and posters spanning the expertise available in our university. Congratulations to Ellie Chilcott @drelliechilcott for best poster, and Juan Antinao Diaz @jantinaod for best oral presentation. Thanks to UCL QS Institute of Neurology and UCL Translational Research Office for their support, and everyone who was able to help put such an enjoyable event together!
February 2024: Professor Muntoni awarded the Richard Attenborough Award for Outstanding Achievement at the Muscular Dystrophy UK President’s Awards in association with Airnow Technology Ltd. The ceremony hosted by our President, Gabby Logan MBE, took place on Monday 19 February 2024, at the Salesforce Tower in the heart of the City of London, seeing the return of an in-person event since the pandemic. The awards recognise heroes within the muscle wasting and weakening community who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to make a difference. The six awards in total, recognised success in fundraising, caring, volunteering, community engagement and research, as well as an outstanding achievement award. Link: Muscular Dystrophy UK President’s Awards
September 2023: The new UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (IoN) facility at 256 Grays Inn Road, IoN is developing a number of new initiatives to improve laboratory support. Our team took a hardhat tour around the lab areas in construction on site at our world-class translational #neuroscience centre #256GraysInnRoad https://bit.ly/onsitegraysinnroad
