Please check out this exciting PhD in opportunity with some great people on board as part of the VIDA (Vascular & Immune contributions to DementiA) partnership Douglas Dyer AnnaWilliamsLab findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

The 2nd project will investigate the role of the endothelial glycocalyx in cerebral small vessel disease and vascular dementia, with Catherine Lawrence Douglas Dyer & AnnaWilliamsLab 🧠👩‍🔬 findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

MS Frontiers 2024 is soon! It’s the UK's largest conference for MS research professionals. We caught up with Dr Emma Tallantyre and Dr Yvonne Dombrowski, who've been helping to organise. Find out how people with MS will be represented at the conference: mssoc.uk/3VGN2dM

-Lifelong absence of microglia causes neurodegenerative disease -Transplantation of healthy microglia can rescue this neurodegenerative disease Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Last week we had an excellent discussion of the #NarrativeCV at our first Edinburgh Neuroscience half day meeting. I thought I'd share our top 10 tips and reflections here courtesy of Malcolm Macleod #FBPE Kaitlyn Hair Alex Peden @alexpeden.bsky.social Ed Silson AnnaWilliamsLab LyonsLab - thank you all!

😊Big thanks to the super appreciative audience we had on Saturday at our Choral Pride concert. 😩Missed it? 🤩Fear not - we're doing it all again in #EdinburghFringe on August 13th. Get your tickets from the Fringe Box Office now! tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/chora…

This week we've been at #MSFrontiers 2024 in Liverpool! From spotlight sessions looking at the world of MS in the future, to a debate about how artificial intelligence could play a role in new treatments - here are a few of the highlights from day 1 🎥 Stay tuned for more...

MS Frontiers is a key part of our strategy to accelerate progress to stopping MS. Here we bring together scientists, clinicians and health care professionals to network and share the latest advances in #MSResearch. Hear from Kellie about what she is currently researching below.

Wow! What a brilliant couple of days we have had at #MSFrontiers 2024 in Liverpool! Yesterday kicked off with a keynote lecture by Professor Jennifer Graves, who discussed the impact of age on MS. We also presented the poster prizes along with 4 flash talks from researchers 👇

As part of our look into skin and spinal cord health, we asked members of the Williams Group to share their research into Multiple Sclerosis and how the spinal cord is involved in this work. 🎥 Watch the full video on our LinkedIn and Instagram pages. #MS #WhyLabResearchMatters

Now online! Our first preprint showing that the loss of FMR1 affects human and rat oligodendrocytes! Mega-collaborative work supported by SIDB. Grateful to everyone involved especially to Vidya Ramesh Ioanna Kougianou Eleni Tsoukala and Owen Dando !

Catch Dr Rana Fetit’s fringe show all about stem cells on the 23rd August at The Stand Comedy Club 🎙️🧫

IRR People: Dr Rana Fetit – ‘It's Alive’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe tomorrow, 13:40 at The Stand Comedy Club! We spoke to Dr Rana Fetit about her research, new comic book and upcoming Fringe show. Read the full interview here: edin.ac/3XoWN17

Open position alert! Collaboration btw ourselves, AnnaWilliamsLab and Biogen on demyelination and neurodegeneration. Candidates with expertise in RNAseq and/or use of zebrafish for molecular studies particularly welcome. Link to posting (do share!): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Alzheimer's Society For Researchers The University of Manchester Absolutely delighted to be leading this exciting new Doctoral Training Centre together with Fatemeh Geranmayeh AnnaWilliamsLab Atticus Hainsworth to train the dementia researchers of the future. Thank you Alzheimer's Society for your generous support.

We are excited Institute for Regeneration and Repair to be part of this DTC and look forward to great students, collaborations and science!

Looking forward to it!

Absolutely delighted be an Institute for Regeneration and Repair member of this new PhD program, and with Craig J Smith and Stuart Allan, to welcome our first PhD student investigating post- stroke cognitive decline in Sept.

Today myself and kellie 🌻👩‍🔬 were invited by MS Society Scotland to talk about our most recent research updates for the Living well with MS event in Ayrshire. We spoke to some amazing people today who engaged with us and shared their stories. 🧡

CRM Institute for Regeneration and Repair to help train the next generation of dementia researchers as part of the new Alzheimer's Society Doctoral Training Centre for Vascular and Immune Contributors to Dementia led by Manchester University Read more 📖 regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/news/latest-ne…