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1 October 2026: The Finelli Lab welcomes PhD students Robert Jones and Alicia Thorpe!

Robert is funded by the Alzheimer’s Society Lewy Body Dementia DTN and will study how changes in glycosaminoglycans contribute to dementia with lewy bodies.

Alicia is funded by the MRC Advanced Inter-Disciplinary Models DTP and her project aims to develop an advanced cellular model of the brain, in partnership with PeptiMatrix.

30 September 2026: Congratulations to Zo for submitting his PhD thesis!

19 September 2026: We led a session for the Saffron Club on DNA. It was great to talk about DNA, and making DNA bracelets with kids and their families at the Meadows Library. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

24-26 August 2026: Second hybrid workshop, held at Lund University in Sweden, for the International Network of Neurodegenerative Disease Research (INNDR), co-led by Dr Mattéa Finelli and Dr Melissa Trotman-Lucas (see here). Mattéa and Melissa were also invited to discuss at the Global Alliance of Medical Excellence (more detail here) the recent successes of the INNDR.

13 August 2026: Congratulations to Zo for being awarded a highly-competitive LifeArc Knowledge Transfer Innovation Fellowship to help him build a career in innovation.

22 April 2026: Mattéa gave a talk on “Using cellular models to study the molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease” at the Queen Mary’s Centre for Predictive in vitro Models. Thanks to Prof Julien Gautrot for the invitation.

15 January 2026: Welcome to Dr Melissa Trotman-Lucas from the School of Psychology who will be visiting us for her project Unlocking the gut-brain rescue pathway in stroke funded by the Supporting Emerging Experimental Discovery (SEED) funding from the University of Nottingham.