Some members of the DDI had a great time attending the Festival of Genomics and Biodata yesterday! 🧬🔬
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2024 is off to a great start with a DDI team lunch at Franco Manca! 🍕🥳

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We are delighted to welcome the newest member of the DDI team to our lab! Laura is a master's student from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and we can’t wait to share the ways we make new medicines with her. #AlzheimersResearchUK

Huge congratulations to our chemist, Dr Lula Salerno, who passed her viva yesterday to complete her PhD!!! 🎉🎉🎉 #PhD #Chemistry #Alzheimers ResearchUK #Alzheimers

Welcome to our 2023 industrial undergraduate trainees, Gabriel, Oscar and Amber. We love sharing the excitement of making medicines to attract new talent- this type of placement is how our CSO, Prof Fiona Ducotterd 🟧 started her pharma career. UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Brain Sciences Alzheimer's Research UK

We enjoyed sharing our drug discovery work and our new #256graysinnroad home during a visit from Alzheimer's Research UK CEO 🟧 Hilary Evans 🟧 and President David Cameron this week. All in #ForACure UCL Brain Sciences

So excited to introduce our new Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery @ UCL leadership team: welcome David Chambers, Head of Biology and Matt Cheeseman, Head of Chemistry and congrats to Fiona Jeganathan on your well deserved promotion to Head of Pharmacology Research at ARUK Alzheimer's Research UK 🟧

Now hearing from Prof Fiona Ducotterd 🟧 from our Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery @ UCL about what inspires her in dementia research and our wonderful Drug Discovery Alliance.

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Really interesting morning at UCL Brain Sciences Impact Policy event - the lovely Ada Jusic did this amazing illustration of our work making medicines with Alzheimer's Research UK at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery @ UCL 🧡

Join us in this Saturday 8th in Lee Valley Park for the Alzheimer's Research UK Walk for a Cure 🍊🚶‍♂️
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Find us in the UCL newsletter talking about our lab, what we do, and how we are excited to move to our new Neurology Building in Greys Inn Road! 🏗️🥼
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For the next 2 months, we're joined by Ariba Azam, a 2nd-year chemistry undergrad looking to pursue postgrad studies in Alzheimer's. For her placement, she will be carrying out chemistry to synthesize drug-like molecules in a multistep synthesis to contribute to our projects ⚗️👩‍🔬

Have we been underestimating the value of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) in #Parkinsons ? Check out left shift on this table favoring ChEIs over placebo! New meta-analysis suggests associated with improvement of individual neuropsychiatric symptoms, specifically delusions and…

Still time to add some cellular definition to a brain cookie at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery @ UCL stand and ask about how we make medicines Research at ARUK London Open Day…

Really enjoyed the discussion as part of this panel about putting research into practice at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery @ UCL at the Alzheimer's Society For Researchers retreat in Newcastle with the amazing Francesco A. Aprile and Professor Louise Robinson

Susannah Baird presented a poster on our High Throughput Screening platform and Lucy Granat presented a poster on developing our astrocyte platform at the Alzheimer's Research UK Alzheimer's Research UK London Network Centre Science day 👩‍🔬🧠