Congratulations to all

Dr. Birthe Hilgen for presenting our work at ARVO and ISER 2024 and winning a travel award for ISER 2024!

Dr. Marina Moya Molina who completed the PhD viva successfully in July 2024. Very well done!

Dr. Marzena Kurzawa-Akanbi for securing a lecturer position at the Biosciences Institute at Newcastle University!

Dr. Avril Watson and Dr. Rozalya Tsikandelova who completed their vivas successfully in November 2023 with minor corrections. Very well done!

Dr. Robert Atkinson who completed his viva successfully in March 2023. Very well done!

Marina Moya Molina who was awarded a travel scholarship to attend the RDM meeting in October 2023!

We're looking for an exceptional student for early 2025

We are looking for an exceptional and motivated research assistant or research associate to join our group in early 2025 and work with our team in generation of Hypoimmune photoreceptors.

For enquiries please contact Prof. Lako at majlinda.lako@ncl.ac.uk

A novel role for extracellular vesicles as disease messenger in AMD

A new paper demonstrating a novel role for extracellular vesicles as disease messenger in AMD has just been accepted by the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. Well done Marzena and team!

A second paper describing the incorporation of microglia like cells in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal organoids has been accepted by the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Watch this space for the preprint!

Best Poster prize

Best Poster prize went to our talented final year PhD student, Robert Atkinson at the Newcastle University Bioscience Institute Postdoctoral Symposium

Presenting at ARVO 2022 in Denver

Well done to Maria Georgiou and Agata Rozanska for presenting our group’s work at ARVO 2022 in Denver!

A successful PhD defence

Congratulations to Maria Georgiou for a successful PhD defence.

Good luck to Joseph

Dr. Joseph Collin has joined Astra Zeneca after 12 years of working in our group. We wish him well in his future endeavours in Sweden.

Lewy Body dementia

Impressive work done by our Dr. Marzena Kurzawa-Akanbi on the role of fats and proteins in Lewy Body dementia. Well done Marzena! New understanding of Lewy body dementia - Press Office - Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)

Winner

Maria Georgiou from our group won the best NUBI photo competition event in 2021! Well done Maria!