Experts delve into advancements in Parkinson's treatment at Oon Lecture
The Oon Lecture returned to Downing for its 14th edition yesterday evening.
This year's lecture was delivered by Professor Roger Barker and Professor Malin Parmar on 'Repairing the brain in Parkinson's Disease - The long and winding road'. It was delivered to mark the presentation of the Oon Award for Preventative Medicine to Professor Barker and Professor Parmar.
In their talk, they discussed the rationale and history of dopamine cell replacement in Parkinson's Disease (PD), what they have learnt, and how this will be used to inform and develop a new stem cell-derived dopamine cell therapy for advancing PD.
Professor Roger Barker is a Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He combines his research looking at novel therapies to treat chronic neurodegenerative disorders of the brain with clinically-based work aimed at better defining such disorders.
Professor Malin Parmar is an Associate Professor at Lund University in Sweden and manages a research group that works with translational stem cell biology. The focus of her research is to understand cell fate specification in the developing brain and in human neural progenitor cells using cell-based models.
The Master, Professor Graham Virgo, thanked Professor Barker and Professor Parmar for their excellent lecture. He said: "We are really grateful for you telling us about your research."
If you were unable to attend this year's Oon Lecture, you can still watch it via our YouTube recording of the event.
Published 28 February 2024