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Read moreNerve Injury Community Day November 2023
A day for those living with nerve injury and their loved ones, to meet one another, share their experiences and hear from specialist healthcare professionals and scientific researchers.
Join us for the Nerve Injury Community Day 2023 on Saturday 18th November at the UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX. To find out more and register for free, visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nerve-injury-community-day-2023-tickets-698337635667.
More information about our previous community event is available here.
6th ISPNR - UCL CNE - 7-8 July 2022
The 6th International Symposium on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration will be hosted by the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering on 7-8 July 2022.
The interdisciplinary event will bring together researchers and medical professionals with the aim of sharing the latest developments in nerve repair and regeneration.
The conference will be held on the main UCL campus in Bloomsbury, London.
Information on registration and programme will follow soon.
Upcoming events
UCL Pharmacology Seminar: Optimising the functional efficacy of stem cell therapies in a model of Parkinson’s disease – Dr Mariah Lelos, Cardiff University
Date: Friday 21 January 2022
Time: 12.30 – 1.30 PM
Registration details: please email cne@ucl.ac.uk to receive the Zoom meeting link
Dr Lelos completed her PhD on Alzheimer’s disease in 2010 and subsequently commenced a postdoctoral position in the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University. There, she investigated the safety, survival and efficacy of transplanting novel human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC-) derived dopamine cells and medium spiny neurons into rodent models of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, respectively. Dr Lelos was then awarded the 2015 Senior Research Fellowship from Parkinson’s UK to explore the ability of hPSC-derived dopamine cell therapies to form graft-host synapses and to alleviate non-motor dysfunctions. In 2018, Dr Lelos commenced a Senior Lectureship and now co-directs the Brain Repair Group, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University. Dr Lelos’ current research is exploring the impact of cell and gene therapies on non-motor dysfunctions for Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, with particular interests in integration, synaptic connectivity, neuroinflammation and neuron subtype specificity.
CNE Seminar Series
Upcoming talks
TBC
Past events
Mag. Tamara Weiss, PhD, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna (Austria)
Wednesday 14 April 2021
Understanding Schwann cell functions during nerve regeneration to improve therapeutic approaches for nerve guidance conduits
Professor Rickie Patani, UCL
Friday 12 March 2021
Delineating cell type-specific molecular aberrations in ALS using human stem cell models
Prof António Salgado, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal
Date: 13 November 2019
Impact of cell secretome based therapies in CNS regenerative medicine
Dr Eilís Dowd, Lecturer in Pharmacology at National University of Ireland, Galway
Date: 22 October 2019
Cellular Brain Repair for Parkinson’s Disease: Is the Answer in the (Biomaterial) Matrix?
Dr Mathis Riehle – University of Glasgow
Date: Friday 14 June 2019
Supporting nerve repair using devices, cells, materials and patterning
Professor Kirsten Haastert-Talini, Hannover Medical School
Friday 10 May 2019
Concepts of peripheral nerve tissue engineering – essentials and variables to be considered in pre-clinical research
Professor Jonathan Gale, UCL Ear Institute
Date: Tuesday 12 March 2019
Injury, repair and regeneration in the inner ear
Hazel Brown, Specialist Physiotherapist, RNOH
Date: Wednesday 27 February
Therapeutic assessments and interventions following nerve injury
Dr Wenlong Huang, University of Aberdeen
Date: Friday 18th January
A self-assembling hydrogel-based combination approach to enhance axonal regrowth after spinal injury
Dr Cathy Holloway, Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub
Date: 7 May
Dr Rui Loureiro, UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science, Aspire Centre for Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology
Date: Tuesday 11 December
Robot mediated rehabilitation in brain, spine and nerve injury
Dr Henry Lancashire, UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Date: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Micromanufacture for Neural Interfaces
Dr Andrada Ianus
12th June 2018
Comparison of OGSE and SDE ActiveAx for axon diameter mapping: An experimental study in viable nerve tissue
Dr Emad Moeendarbary, UCL Mechanical Engineering
8th May 2018
Mechanics of Glial Scars in the Central Nervous System
Dr Kirill Aristovich (UCL Medical Physics)
13th March 2018
EIT imaging and selective neuromodulation in complex peripheral nerves
Mr Tom Quick
8th February 2018
Nerve Injury – A Clinician’s View
Dr Siobhan McMahon (REMEDI, Galway)
Friday 26th Jan 2018
The Glial and Glyomic Responses to Spinal Cord Injury in Regenerating Xenopus and Collagen Hydrogel Treated Rats
Prof David Holder
March 2018
Mr David Choi
11th December 2017
Olfactory ensheathing cells and regenerative medicine