And if you missed the BBC news yesterday, here their today’s article
➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please share with interested students, and feel free to get in touch with Dr Laura Smith to find out more about this exciting opportunity!

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The PhD project will involve studying the mechanisms underlying Alpers’ syndrome, a devastating early-onset form of mitochondrial disease and will be funded by The Noah Jordan Foundation 💚🦕

Jane Zhuk, a PhD student working in our lab also did an excellent job presenting a poster on their Epilepsy Research Institute funded PhD project on mitochondrial epilepsy.
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Thank you to Megan Wilson, an MRes student currently working in our lab, along with Conor Holly and Jenna Dickin, two students who helped out with this study as part of their undergraduate research projects earlier this year.

Further coverage of this important work from our colleagues in Melbourne that we are working on with @lifearc.bsky.social to implement in the UK NHS

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You can find the paper published in Genome Medicine (Hock et al., 2025) here ➡️ genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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⬆️🔝From the Mitochondrial Research Group at the House of Lords: Prof Hudson, Prof McFarland, Dr Pickett and Prof Taylor.

The new LifeArc Centre for Rare Mitochondrial Diseases promises to deliver better diagnostics, biomarkers and new treatments for families with #mitodisease 💚

Dr Valeria Di Leo, and Professor Robert Taylor (who gave an amazing update on the LifeArc Centre for Rare Mitochondrial Diseases).

Dania Hammadi, Dr James Lambton, Dr Imogen Franklin (congrats on winning a poster prize 🏆), Dr Tiago Gomes