The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab

The day is FINALLY here! The green light has been given by Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial with the stem cell therapy STEM-PD for treatment of Parkinsons disease! cam.ac.uk/research/news/… @ParmarLab @SCICambridge @BrainRepair_VGB @Kirkeby_Lab

So excited to share our paper showing how blood neurofilament light levels could help predict proximity to disease onset in #Huntingtons A mammoth 14 year study! A spin off from our sleep work, TL:DR summary below…🧵 @PDandHDLab @HDBuzzFeed link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thanks @HDBuzz for this great initiative and for all the amazing work that goes into HDBuzz articles

Congratulations to both Marta and Maha on their recent graduations.

Thrilled to share the preprint of our 12-year polysomnography study in Huntington's! TL:DR: 1) insomnia affects 90% early stage patients and links to greater cognitive problems and disease activity, independent of disease stage/meds/mood 🧵 @PDandHDLab medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

So much brilliant food for thought at the inaugural glymphatics symposium in Lund! Thank you @GlymphaticConf @DAcharya_

Roger's article in @F1000Research has been viewed more than 5000 times! Have a read! f1000research.com/articles/9-862…

Roger gave a talk last week at the German movement disorder meeting. "Deutscher Kongress fur Parkinson und Bewegungsstorungen".

Movers & Shakers Podcast - Treatments for Parkinson's discussed by Professor Roger Barker. moversandshakerspodcast.com/podcast/episod… #Parkinsons

Caroline’s team shared different approaches on the importance of #immunity in #ParkinsonsDisease at 2024 @immuparknet Annual Meeting in #Belgrade. Lots of potential for fruitful collaborations! @JuliaGreenland @Marta__Camacho

Members of the Roger Barker and Jo Jones team attending the annual meeting of the EU funded programme of work looking at brain repair and how we can do this better.

Trevor Elliott, a research volunteer with Parkinson's disease, is walking 120km from Newcastle to Carlisle in June to raise money for our research at the John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. If you would like make a donation to support him, please visit his JustGiving page -

Congratulations to the newest Dr in the house! Well deserved celebrations after many years' great work on the gut-brain axis in Parkinson's @Marta__Camacho

Couldn't be happier with my PhD viva experience, a critical scientific discussion of my PhD work, followed by cake and amazing people that I am lucky enough to call friends.

#barkerlabequestrians reaching critical mass at this year’s lab retreat…! @PDandHDLab

And the view from the top… @PDandHDLab

Happy World Sleep Day! 🌎 😴 and what a great way to mark it with a whole session dedicated to sleep at #BrainConf2024 with @zanna_voysey presenting our HD-sleep work in the ECR session.

👏 Well done to our @zanna_voysey for coming 2nd in the ABN movement disorders meeting trainee presentations on Friday! #sleep #neurodegeneration

Slow-wave sleep affects synucleinopathy and regulates proteostatic processes in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease | Science Translational Medicine science.org/doi/full/10.11…

A very powerful and well written piece that is worth a read around #Huntingtonsdisease @racingdementia telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2023…