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The BRC have awarded over £700,000 to three exciting clinical research projects in neuroscience.

The awards were confirmed last month for the following innovative projects:

• £250,000 to Professor Linda Greensmith, from the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Neurology, to validate the use of skeletal muscle MRI as a way of detecting motor neurone disease progression.

• £220,000 to Professor Andrey Abramov and Dr Sonia Gandhi, from the Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Neurology, to use novel methodology to visualize small misfolded proteins called oligomers, thought to be the cause of cell death and spread of Parkinson's disease (PD). Ìý

• £500,000 (£250,000 from the BRC Cardiometabolic programme) to Dr Robert Simister, from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Dr Reecha Sofat, from the Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, to create a platform for multi-dimensional characterisation of every patient presenting with stroke at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøH Hyperacute Stroke Unit.

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