We are delighted to announce that the Manchester Epilepsy Research Network (MERN) has joined the Centre as a new epilepsy research theme.
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Highlights from Brain Health Day 2025
Brain Health Day successfully united researchers, medical professionals, and the public for a day dedicated to brain health awareness and education. Supported by the ARUK North West Network, attendees had the opportunity to learn about brain diseases such as stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and brain tumours.
Rare Disease Day: PhD Student is advancing research and support for NF2-SWN in Manchester
Rare Disease Day is a pivotal time to raise awareness and support for those living with rare conditions such as Neurofibromatosis type 2-related Schwannomatosis (NF2-SWN). Read about the research that NF2BioSolutions funded PhD student Reygn Done is working on…
Join us for Brain Health Day on Saturday 15 March 2025
Join us on Saturday 15 March at Friends’ Meeting House in Manchester City Centre for an enlightening day dedicated to brain health. Discover more about brain diseases such as stroke, dementia, brain tumours and Parkinson’s disease including a special screening of The Parkinson’s Project. The event is free to attend and open to the public – everyone is welcome.
Advancing Pediatric Brain Cancer Research
Lindonlight Collective has awarded $1.97 million to our Chair of Translational Neuro-Oncology Professor Petra Hamerlik for her pioneering work on pediatric low-grade gliomas.
Professor Pippa Tyrrell MBE
It is with enormous sadness that we announce the death of Professor Pippa Tyrrell, emeritus Professor of Stroke Medicine at the University of Manchester and retired consultant in stroke medicine at Salford Royal
Confidence for Translation (C4T) Awardees 2024
Translation Manchester has announced the Confidence for Translation (C4T) awardees. The call was extremely competitive and we’re proud to celebrate our colleagues at the Centre whose projects were awarded.
Alzheimer’s Society Fellowship success
Dr Sasha Philbert has been awarded a prestigious 4-year Alzheimer’s Society Fellowship. Dr Philbert’s research aims to improve the diagnostic accuracy of vascular dementia by distinguishing it from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
Greater Manchester researchers find cognitive impairment worsens outcomes in chronic kidney disease
Researchers at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Northern Care Alliance, working with colleagues in the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre and international collaborators in Spain and Italy have found that people with both cognitive impairment and chronic kidney disease (CKD) had worse health outcomes than people with CKD alone.
Professor Tipu Aziz, 1956-2024
It is with great regret that we in the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre join others in acknowledging the recent death of Professor Tipu Aziz.
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Email: GJBRC@manchester.ac.uk
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