Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre - OPDC

08/05/2025

23/04/2025

OPDC researchers support World Parkinson’s Day 2025 https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/opdc-researchers-support-world-parkinson2019s-day-2025

11/04/2025

This we are resharing a video filmed by
Parkinson's UK of the Wade-Martins lab.
It shows the collaborative research being done in Oxford to further our understanding of 's disease

This is "Oxford lab story" by DPAG Digital Media on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/04/2025

11/04/2025

To celebrate we are sharing you a photo of the wonderful lab researchers working hard to find a cure for Disease

26/02/2025

A new Oxford collaborative team of biologists and engineers led by Professor Richard Wade-Martins (DPAG/Kavli), Professor Ed Walsh (Dept. Engineering Sciences) and Dr Ricardo Marquez Gomez (DPAG/Kavli) has been awarded a grant of £2 million from the BBSRC to bring together the technologies of human stem cells and oil-wall microfluidics. The human stem cells will be used to generate each specific neuronal subtype of the cortical-striatal-midbrain circuit held within oil-walled chambers. Such chambers can reliably construct microenvironments and circuits with long-term accessibility, contrasting with current microfluidic technologies based on rigid and single use plastics.

The project will study the physiology, regulation and cellular architecture of neurons in the circuit. Taking advantage of the adaptability properties of the fluid-walls technology, the team will also explore the regulation of gene expression in the cell body and along the neuronal axons which form the circuits to understand how genes control neuronal circuit function.

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15/01/2025

A landmark collaboration of neuroscientists has secured major further funding ($6 million) from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, in partnership with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, to continue their pioneering research in mapping neuronal circuits that become dysfunctional in Parkinson’s. The Oxford-led team will expand their recent discoveries of the molecules, cells and circuits modulating dopamine pathways to develop insights for understanding and treating Parkinson’s. Read more: https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/researchers-given-6-million-for-ground-breaking-research-to-tackle-parkinson2019s

19/11/2024

The OPDC held their seventh OPDC Open Day in Oxford on Tuesday 10 September 2024 at the Leonardo Hotel, Oxford. Read more https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/opdc/news/latest/oxford-parkinson2019s-disease-centre-open-day-2024

12/11/2024

OPDC researchers from the Wade-Martins & Salman Groups take part in the Oxford Half Marathon for Parkinson's UK. Read more: https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/opdc-researchers-take-part-in-the-oxford-half-marathon-for-parkinson2019s

08/10/2024

Some of our researchers are running in the Oxford Half Marathon 2024 on 13 October. We are fundraising for Parkinson's UK. Help us to raise essential funds for this wonderful charity

Help Ollie Curry raise money to support Parkinson’s UK

29/07/2024

A team from the Wade-Martins Group braved very wet conditions to take part in the annual Walk for Parkinson's in Dinton Pastures Country Park, Berkshire organised by Parkinson's UK, in conjunction with the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch. Read more here: https://bit.ly/46nw1J0

06/06/2024

On 22 May 2024, the Wade-Martins Research Group hosted Councillor Mark Lygo, the recently appointed Vice Chair of Oxfordshire County Council; Hannah Newell, Personal Assistant to the Leader and Cabinet, Oxfordshire County Council; along with Rebecca Berry, the newly appointed Chair of the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch; and Martin Cowell, Vice Chair. Read the story here: https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/wade-martins-group-researchers-welcome-special-guests-to-the-department