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Group of researchers at Keele University who work on anything & everything neuro-related. www.keele.ac.uk/research/ourresearc…

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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A huge congrats to our member Ali Aries for her NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award! This will support her work leading a Roundtable on somatosensation post-stroke for the ISRRA and to develop a Patient and Lived Experience Advisory Team (PLEAT) in The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese for her recent publication on the introduction of whole genome sequencing as NHS standard of care for glioma patients in two neurosurgical oncology centres! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Introduction of whole genome sequencing as NHS standard of care for glioma patients in two neurosurgical oncology centres: West Midlands - BJC Reports
BJC Reports - Introduction of whole genome sequencing as NHS standard of care for glioma patients in two neurosurgical oncology centres: West Midlands
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A huge congratulations to our members Chris Adams, Divya Maitreyi Chari, Nikolaos Tzerakis and Melissa Bowerman for receiving funding from the North Staffordshire Medical Institute to develop their product BrainMix for disease modelling!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese for her recent publication describing A Clinical Tool to Identify Incidental Meningioma for Early Outpatient Management! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41264316/!
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A Clinical Tool to Identify Incidental Meningioma for Early Outpatient Management - PubMed
This cohort study found that the IMPACT tool accurately predicted the risk of incidental meningioma progression and can be used to stratify patients into early intervention, serial monitoring, or safe discharge from outpatient care.
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Congratulations to our member Melissa Bowerman for her recent publication demonstration the therapeutic potential of drug repurposing and the targeting of the glucocorticoid-Klf15 pathway for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman sharing her rare disease research and experience with public engagement and involvement with the wider scientific community!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Congratulations to our member Divya Chari who has been invited to contribute to a strategic Global Health Innovative & Advanced Treatments Workshop, organised by the @ukri.org Medical Research Council UK!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Congratulations to Eve McCallion, a Senior Research Technician in our member's Melissa Bowerman's lab, that was shortlisted as a finalist in this year's Lab Awards in the category of Lab Technician of the Year (lnkd.in/dbjKFJ5d)!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Last month, our member Claire Monroy had the fanstastic opportunity to give a talk on "Neural correlates of visual processing in deaf infants" at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (2025.neurolang.org) meeting in Washington D.C. Well done!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Congrats to Ian Holt, a Research Associate in our member Heidi Fuller's group, who won first prize at the Neuromuscular Study Group meeting in Stresa (Italy) for his poster on Characterising PMP22 proximal partners in a Schwann cell model of CMT1A. Well done!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Congrats to our member Divya Chari who will be chairing the 2026 UK Multiple Sclerosis Society Career Development Awards round (PhD Fellowships & Early Career Fellowships)!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our members Sharon Owen & Heidi Fuller were at the Neuromuscular Study Group meeting in Stresa (Italy) last week where Sharon delivered an excellent flash talk presentation on using omics to identify severity-specific differences in spinal muscular atrophy!
Research meeting attendees facing speaker Sharon Owen at the podium and title presentation slide.Research meeting attendees facing speaker Sharon Owen at the podium and introduction slide on spinal muscular atrophy.
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman engaging with the SMA community to share research updates and exchange important topics for individuals living with SMA and their families!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Great to see another successful graduate student from our member's group Melissa Bowerman. All the best to Katie as she pursues her medical career!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman share her research on biomarkers in SMA at the Ottawa International Conference on Neuromuscular Disease and Biology at the beginning of the month!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What an exciting oppotunity to join our member's (Melissa Bowerman) research group as a Research Assistant to work on spinal muscular atrophy project! ce0639li.webitrent.com/ce0639li_web...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Well done to our member Heidi Fuller who was an invited speaker at the Ottawa NMD 2025 meeting where she presented thoughts on precision medicine for SMA.
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman sharing her research on the rare skeletal dysplasia Acrodysostosis Type 2 at this internationally recognised meeting on bone research!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Well done to our member Hady Atef who has been awarded the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) Widening Participation Award to present a poster on end-of-life care at the CSP Conference in Newport this November. We can't wait to hear how it goes!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Huge congrats to our member Hady Atef who was recently awarded a @nihr.bsky.social NIHR PASF fellowship for a 1-year research project to investigate the sleep impact on the rehabilitation management plans. Well done!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Our member Jenny Shin is hosting the 13th annual meeting of Mercia Stem Cell Alliance @keeleuniversity.bsky.social on December 3rd 2025. The one-day stem cell meeting will be held at Keele Hall. More info on the event, abstract submission & registration found here: estore.keele.ac.uk/conferences-...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Fantastic to see our member Melissa Bowerman present her SMA research programme in Kunming China!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Huge congratulations to our member Melissa Bowerman for receiving this prestigious & competitive funding to support her research on metabolism defects in spinal muscular atrophy!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our members Melissa Bowerman, Divya Chari, Chris Adams and Stuart Jenkins, along with other colleagues from the @keeleuniversity.bsky.social School of Medicine, welcome medical students from RCSI-Bahrain to join their research labs for the summer! Hope you all have an amazing time!
Keele University School of Medicine in the background. Students and staff in the foreground.
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congratulations to our members Divya Chari and Chris Adams who have been awarded a place on the Innovate-UK funded iCURe Exploit scheme and are now one step closer to getting their "BrainMix" research commercialised! brainmix.co
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese and her team for winning best poster at the Awake Craniotomy Symposium in Bristol!
Research team standing on either side of their research poster.
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Great to see our member Melissa Bowerman sharing her research on muscle and metabolism in SMA to SMA families and people living with SMA!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Exciting to see our member Melissa Bowerman get the opportunity to present her research on SMA and skeletal muscle internationally!
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
First day of the 2025 Cure SMA Annual SMA Research & Clinical Care Meeting was full of exciting new research and discussions with academics, clinicians & individuals living with SMA! Looking forward to day 2!
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We are pleased to inform you that registration and abstract submissions for @sma-europe.bsky.social 5th International Scientific Congress on SMA, taking place in Budapest from 11 to 14 March 2026, are now open! congress.sma-europe.eu
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Last chance to register (attend online or in person) and/or submit an abstract to @sma-europe.bsky.social 1st International Clinical Care. Deadline is June 15th! Registration: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.... Abstract submission: na.eventscloud.com/eSites/sma20...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Huge congratulations to our member Melissa Bowerman for her promotion to Professor! Well done!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Our member Jenny Shin recently shared her exciting research on "Fine-tuning of SHH and WNT signalling to generate Parvalbumin-expressing cortical interneurons from human pluripotent stem cells" at the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London! Well done!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Congratulations to our member Heidi Fuller for her recent appointment as an Associate Non-Executive Director on the board of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH)!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese and her colleagues at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) for being designated as a regional centre of excellence for neuro-oncology by the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission (TJBCM)! www.uhnm.nhs.uk/latest-uhnm-...
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UHNM named brain cancer centre of excellence | University Hospitals of North Midlands
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Congratulations to our member Erminia Albanese from UHNM for co-authoring this exciting study in @natcomms.nature.com reporting whole genome sequencing of >400 adult gliomas, revealing key genetic mutations and potential therapeutic targets! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Genomic landscape of diffuse glioma revealed by whole genome sequencing
Diffuse gliomas are the commonest malignant primary brain tumour in adults. Herein, we present analysis of the genomic landscape of adult glioma, by whole genome sequencing of 403 tumours (256 gliobla...
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
📖 17 of 2025: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (10/10): No pun intended but this book left me breathless I was so overcome with emotion. A beautiful and powerful personal reflection on life, death and the meaning of both. Highly recommend this book. #Booksky
Book cover of When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Fantastic to see our member @bowermanlab.bsky.social get to meet HRH The Princess Royal and share her exciting research on spinal muscular atrophy!
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A huge well done to 1st yr PhD student Krishma Parwana, supervised by our members @Simon Trent & @mdesboisphd.bsky.social who gave a talk at the UK Worm meeting (Durham) entitled "Investigating glutamatergic signalling in learning and memory using C. elegans" !
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Congrats to our member Simon Trent for his recent review on "Fear conditioning: Insights into learning, memory and extinction and its relevance to clinical disorders"! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fear conditioning: Insights into learning, memory and extinction and its relevance to clinical disorders
Fear, whether innate or learned, is an essential emotion required for survival. The learning, and subsequent memory, of fearful events enhances our ab…
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Having just finished reading The Future We Choose, I was inspired to do more. The UK National Trust has a goal of planting 20 million trees by 2030 and you can support this initiave by one-off and monthly donations: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/p...
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Plant a tree for charity
Tree planting is one of our core environmental projects. Dedicate a tree in memory or plant one as a gift with the National Trust.
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
📖 14 of 2025 (10/10): The Future We Choose. A must read for everyone to understand why it is so important to reach the 2030 and 2050 Paris Agreement targets and how we are all responsible to make choices for a regenerative future. #BookSky
Book cover of The Future We Choose by Christians Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac.
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Jim Grange @jimgrange.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Please RT! Thrilled to announce the lineup for the Inaugural Midlands Innovation Open Research Week! We have a great lineup of speakers from across the partnership. @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social @keeleneuro.bsky.social Sign up to talks here: midlandsinnovation.org.uk/latest/event...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Congrats to our members Stuart Jenkins, Divya Chari and Chris Adams for their recent published study demonstrating that electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) nanofibers induce elongation and alignment of co-cultured primary cortical astrocytes and neurons! www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/16...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Check out this nice review recently published by our members Stuart Jenkins and Ruoli Chen on hypoxic neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis: www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congrats to our member Jenny Shin who was awarded the @keeleuniversity.bsky.social School of Life Sciences pump-priming grant to generation human cognition circuit in-a-dish!
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Melissa Bowerman @bowermanlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
SMA Europe is organising the 1st International Clinical Care Symposium on SMA on "Medical Emergencies in SMA: pathophysiology, prevention, and response." Join us in Milan on the 29th and 30th of August 2025. More information & registration link: www.sma-europe.eu/sma-care-sym...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Congrats to our member Jenny Shin who recently joined the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Humane Research Trust (humaneresearch.org.uk/our-people/)!
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Our people - Humane Research Trust
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Congrats to our members Prof Chari & Dr Adams for their recent publication demonstrating the development of a 3D model of neurotrauma using a polymer-nncapsulated neural cell network! www.mdpi.com/2310-2861/11...
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KeeleNeuro @keeleneuro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Join us on March 24th 5:30 PM (GMT) to hear about Professor Albert Garcia-Romeu from @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social on his research on using psychedelics to treat addiction. The event is free & for everyone but you need to register ahead of time: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-reemer...
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The Reemergence of Psychedelics in Contemporary Medicine
An opportunity to hear about Professor Garcia-Romeu's seminal work on the effects of psychedelics as an aid in the treatment of addiction.
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