Vicky Lewis' life "changed dramatically" in September 2021 when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The 43-year-old was referred to Salford Royal Hospital and the decision was made that surgery was needed. After successful surgery and as she continues her recovery,...
Actor Clara Darcy will share her remarkable story of life, love, dancing and brain surgery on BBC Radio 4 later this month.
Her play ‘We Should Definitely Have More Dancing’ was inspired by her experiences after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the base of her skull called a chordoma, in July 2019.
Some of Greater Manchester’s world-leading brain scientists will showcase their work in a day of activities and talks at Manchester Central Library on Saturday 18 March.The brain controls everything we do or think but one in six of us will be affected by a...
A big thankyou to the wonderful women who work at the Jeff and who contributed to our International Women's day. Thank you for giving us an insight into your research careers. We are proud to be working among such inspiring female leaders and IWD2023 was all about...
Professor Stuart Allan is at the forefront of stroke recovery research and is leading a team of researchers working on the next generation of clot-busting medication. Find out more in this episode of the Recovery After Stroke podcast.
“The POBIG study is a team effort, working alongside neurosurgeons, oncologists, nurses, radiologists, physicists, and pathologists, and importantly patient support groups like the Brainstrust. Besides the novelty of irradiating the tumour before surgery, other innovative aspects are that we base the diagnosis on imaging so as not to delay the treatment. Crucially we don’t irradiate the whole tumour, only the part where the neurosurgeon believes the remnants will be left behind. This prevents interference with the standard clinical pathway of looking into specific tumour characteristics and offers unique opportunities to develop more personalised treatment strategies against this life-limiting disease. We are very pleased with how Joel has responded to this treatment and the result so far is very encouraging. We are hopeful this technique could improve outcomes for all patients like Joel in the future.”
Professor Simona Parrinello (UCL Cancer Institute) will be giving a talk about the Glioblastoma and the GEMM preclinical models she has developed. This will be a hybrid event and will take place at the Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester, on the 26/01 at 14:30.
A major research project to help improve treatments for Parkinson’s disease will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) and the Walton Centre (NHS Trust Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery) in Liverpool. The project will be led by, investigator in our centre’s Parkinson’s theme, Professor Nicola Ray, Manchester Metropolitan’s Department of Psychology and her Co-Investigators at the NCA, Walton Centre and The University of Manchester. Professor Ray developed the ideas for the project from work she and the team have undertaken with funding from Health Innovation Manchester.
Funding has been awarded through the dual-award PhD programme between the University of Melbourne and University of Manchester. The dual-award scheme brings together research teams between the two institutions with a PhD student assigned to each. This is a highly competitive scheme with just six dual awards (twelve students) made across both Universities in all disciplines. For our researchers to secure two of these awards is therefore a fantastic achievement.
The Association of British Neurologists’ Movement Disorders Special Interest Group meeting will come to Manchester for the first time in January 2023.
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