Tofaris Lab @TofarisLab
Molecular Neurodegeneration Research Group at @NDCNOxford based at @KavliOxford. Researching Parkinson’s pathogenesis aiming to identify targets for therapies. ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/molec… @UniofOxford Joined May 2023-
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We were awarded GOLD Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (#LEAF) standard aiming to reduce carbon impact & promote sustainable lab practices. Well done to everyone @TofarisLab. Special thanks to Andrew Castle who spearheaded this effort!
Our @UniofOxford scientists are swapping lab coats for running shoes! They’re taking on the @OxfordHalf to fund vital dementia research for @AlzResearchUK Show your support here! justgiving.com/page/aruk-runn… #TeamARUK #OxfordHalf #RunForResearch
Our DPhil student @Gordon_Lam97, is running the @OxfordHalf with @ARUKThamesV Running Researchers and is raising money to support neurodegenerative disease research. 🍰 Help by buying the snacks he brought from Japan, Thailand, and Hong Kong. 🔗donate: shorturl.at/RqmHe
Had lots of fun @TofarisLab summer outing last week!
Great #CRISPR workshop at #MertonCollege organised by @eyeMacLaren where our post doc, Dr. Ana Aragón @AnaAragonG presented her work on inducible CRISPRi gene silencing in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons from Parkinson’s patients 🧠 🔗shorturl.at/atoDj @NDCNOxford
Huge congratulations to Anis Sahoo @SahooAnis for winning the Oxford 10k @raceforlife today!! 🏃🏽♂️✨ Incredible achievement, well done 🎉 🔗36:36 shorturl.at/EYD42
Street Party 2025 @KavliOxford @OxfordDPAG @NDCNOxford @TofarisLab
Anis Sahoo @SahooAnis, a brilliant post-doc in our lab, is running for brain cancer research with @CR_UK #RaceForLife 🧠💜 🍰 Support him by buying his homemade cake & macarons, or simply donate: shorturl.at/kfNFt Find us at @KavliOxford @NDCNOxford
Congratulations to our Flash talk prize winner from Wednesday’s @AlzResearchUK Research day! @_SumanDutta from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, for his talk: Extracellular vesicles as carriers of pathogenic α-synuclein in neurodegenerative diseases
Congratulations to @ShijunVictorYan @TofarisLab @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford for completing a very successful DPhil! With three first author papers & several awards he has been an exceptional graduate student. Well done Dr Yan! Thank you to Alex Thompson and Tim Bartels for examining
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Suman Dutta @_Suman_Dutta for winning the @AlzResearchUK TVN video and flash talk awards for his research on brain-derived EVs. #Parkinson @NDCNOxford @KavliOxford
OPDC hosts the 2025 Oxford Parkinson’s Research Day @KavliOxford dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-pa… @OxfordDPAG @OxNeuro @DPAGPostdoc @DPAGAthenaSwan @TofarisLab @NDCNOxford @MRCBNDU
Many congratulations to our #DPhil student Joanna Komorowska @TofarisLab @KavliOxford @NDCNOxford who was awarded the Gustav Born Scholarship in Biomedical Sciences @SPC_Oxford to study an iPSC-based model of #Parkinson's disease. Well done!
Well done to our #DPhil student Hung-Ju Chueh @TofarisLab who won the best poster prize for his work on Neuron-Microglia interactions in an iPSC-based model of #Parkinson's disease @OxfordPDCentre Research Day!
Did you know that probable corticobasal degeneration has a long preclinical phase? Together with @XinYouTai we identified a case with a decade-long prodrome on neuroimaging. …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…
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