Events

MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre 2025 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 8am to 6pm

We are pleased to welcome you to the 2025 MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Annual Meeting will take place on Wednesday 26th March in the Lecture Theatre L2 in the Andrew Wiles Building within the Mathematical Institute.

Seminar: Interested in Orphan Drugs? What You Need to Know About Regulatory Affairs

Dr Timothy Cote, former Director of the Office of Orphan Product Development (OOPD) at the FDA and CEO of Only Orphans Cote

Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 2pm to 3pm @ IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building - IDRM, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7TY

Hosted by TBD

Seminar: Next Directions in Dystrophinopathy Therapies

Dr Kevin Flanigan, Robert F. and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation Endowed Chair in Neuromuscular Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Monday, 14 October 2024, 11am to 12pm @ IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building - IDRM, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7TY

Hosted by Prof Laurent Servais

Seminar: Curating clinical science: the future of academic publishing

Prof Bernard Dan, Professor of Neuroscience at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Monday, 30 September 2024, 11am to 12pm @ IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building - IDRM, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7TY

Hosted by Prof Laurent Servais

MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Networking Session

Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 1.30pm to 5pm @ St. Catherine's College

Seminar: Wearables in mega-scale biobanks – are there some learnings for rare disease research?

Prof Aiden Doherty, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Oxford

Monday, 10 June 2024, 11am to 12pm @ Richard Doll Building

Hosted by Prof Laurent Servais

Seminar: Bridging the divide: translational research with a canine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Prof Richard Piercy, Professor of Comparative Neuromuscular Disease at the Royal Veterinary College

Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Hosted by Dr Thomas Roberts

Seminar: Congenital disorders of autophagy and intracellular trafficking – a novel class of neurometabolic disorders linking aberrant neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration

Prof Heinz Jungbluth, Professor of Paediatric Neurology at King’s College London and Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Thursday, 25 April 2024, 10.30am to 11.30am @ George Pickering Education CentreSeminar Room 4B, John Radcliffe Hospital, Floor 3

Hosted by Dr Sithara Ramdas

CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED - Seminar: Mitochondrial DNA Disorders: the (long and winding) road to treatment

Prof Antonella Spinazzola, Professor of Mitochondrial Medicine and Neuroscience at University College London

Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 12pm to 1pm @ Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine (IDRM) IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building Old Rd Campus, Roosevelt Dr Headington, Oxford OX3 7TY

Hosted by A/Prof Carlo Rinaldi

Seminar: Sugars & proteins

Prof Benjamin G. Davis, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Organic Chemistry, Pembroke College, and Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry, Rosalind Franklin Institute.

Monday, 12 February 2024, 12pm to 1pm @ MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Seminar Room Headington OX3 9DS

Hosted by Dr Yin Dong

Seminar: Stem cells to treat muscular dystrophies

Prof Jennifer Morgan, Emeritus Professor in the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Friday, 08 December 2023, 11am to 12pm @ Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM) IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7TY

Hosted by Professor Dame Kay Davies

Seminar: Protecting motor neurons from degeneration by targeting bioenergetics

Prof Tom Gillingwater , Professor of Anatomy at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences and the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research at the University of Edinburgh

Thursday, 19 October 2023, 11.30am to 12.30pm @ West Wing Seminar Room, West Wing of John Radcliffe Hospital, Level 6

Hosted by Professor Kevin Talbot

2023 Annual Meeting - Register now!

Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 8.30am to 6pm

We are pleased to welcome you to the 2023 MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Annual Meeting will take place on Tuesday 26th September in the Investcorp Auditorium at St. Antony's College.

Seminar: Distal myopathies – elucidation of mechanism and development of therapy

Dr Ichizo Nishino, Director of the Department of Neuromuscular Research at the National Institute of Neuroscience within the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

Monday, 19 June 2023, 11am to 12pm @ George Pickering Education Centre Lecture Room, John Radcliffe Hospital, Floor 3

Hosted by Professor Laurent Servais

Seminar: Emerging Oligonucleotide Therapeutics for Neuromuscular Diseases

Dr Yoshitsugu Aoki, Director of the Department of Molecular Therapy and the head of dystrophic dog and micropig facility at the National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP)

Friday, 19 May 2023, 11am to 12pm @ IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building Roosevelt Drive OX3 7TY

Hosted by Dr Thomas Roberts

Bake Sale for MDUK Town and Gown

Tuesday, 09 May 2023, 10am to 4pm @ Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine, IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Campus, Old Rd, Roosevelt Dr, Headington, Oxford OX3 7TY

The MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre will be hosting a Bake Sale at IDRM on Tuesday 9th May 2023 to raise funds for the MDUK Oxford Town and Gown 2023.

Quiz Fundraiser Night for MDUK Town and Gown

Thursday, 04 May 2023, 7pm to 9pm @ The Britannia Inn, 1 Lime Walk, London Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 7AA

The MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre will be hosting a Quiz Night at The Britannia Inn in Headington on Thursday 4th May 2023 raise funds for the MDUK Oxford Town and Gown 2023.

Seminar: Curbing mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration: lessons from neurogenetics

Dr Derek Narendra, Lasker Clinical Research Scholar in the Neurogenetics Branch of the NINDS (NIH)

Monday, 24 April 2023, 3pm to 4pm @ IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY

Hosted by Professor Jo Poulton and Associate Professor Carlo Rinaldi

Online Seminar: Diagnostic delay in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the case for newborn screening

Prof. Emma Ciafaloni, Robert C. and Rosalyne H. Griggs Professor in Experimental Therapeutics of Neurologic Disease, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, NY

Thursday, 08 December 2022, 1pm to 2pm

Hosted by Professor Laurent Servais

Online Seminar: The Origin of Mitochondrial Diseases

Prof Patrick Chinnery is Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and clinical neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 2pm to 3pm

The MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre Seminar Series welcomes Prof Patrick Chinnery, Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, and clinical neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Prof Chinnery will be giving the talk entitled 'The Origin of Mitochondrial Diseases', and the event will be hosted by Dr Victoria Nesbitt