Made it UK Dementia Research Institute

I’m not attending ACF neurology interviews for the first time in 10 years. So I feel free to tell you about some of the common recurring questions.

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It took a while but I've worked out consultant gross starting salary in Mars bars. 2008 = 108 Mars bars per hour, 2022 = 65 Mars bars per hour. I think you'll find that is the same for everything you buy. (gross income, Mars bar standardised for 51g)

Dame Jane Dacre Will Quince Steve Barclay Gender Pay Gap in Medicine Review MWF For academic clinician parents who are trying to do PhD & post doc work before CCT, the changes to training - eg compulsory dual training in GIM, two foundation years, inflexibility, have made it career restricted to the heroic. Lots of knock on for life sciences and research.

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So Pret baristas will now be earning up to £14.10 an hour. New NHS doctors - after their 5-year medical degree, whopping £80,000 of student debt, & life & death responsibilities - get paid £14.13 an hour. And the government wonders why they're striking? bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Really proud of this work and couldn't have done it without Olivia Gillham and Mike Flower

Paternity leave reduces sexist attitudes in countries that have introduced it.

Please see linked advert for London ACL posts in Neurology SA4-6 at UCL, other posts detailed at Kings and Imperial. These are highly sought after integrated academic training posts. Do email me for discussions / details of UCL post. Please circulate news. oriel.nhs.uk/Web/Vacancy/Va…

New publication alert! 🚨 PolyQ length-dependent metabolic alterations and DNA damage drive human astrocyte dysfunction in Huntington’s disease — by The Gothic Scientist Mike Flower Simon Eaton Michael Duchen in Progress of Neurobiology @ELSneuroscience sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

STOP PRESS! I promise that as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip I WILL move the hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the Crown & Treaty to a more sensible position. TO PROVE IT, I have just signed a treaty with the Crown & Treaty, that if I win they will move it. I keep my promises!

One of fave Bob Mortimer clips with Richard Ayoade. Gets me every time!

Watching Wimbledon final on catch up, second set paused til tomorrow, no spoilers don’t ruin it for me

📢 New publication alert! Check out this comprehensive review of genetic modifiers of repeat expansion disorders by Sangeeth Rajagopal et al. (Jasmine Donaldson, Mike Flower, Davina, Sarah Tabrizi) published in #ETLS 🧬#HD UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Brain Sciences portlandpress.com/emergtoplifesc…

I went on a pilgrimage to Bristol Airport’s world famous multi-faith area

📢 New publication alert! 'Therapeutic validation of MMR-associated genetic modifiers in a human ex vivo model of Huntington disease' by Ferguson et al., 2024 AJHG 🧬 Mike Flower UCL Brain Sciences UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share that I've been awarded a UK Dementia Research Institute LifeArc pilot award to research biomarkers in Huntington's and related repeat expansion diseases! #Research #Dementia #Biomarkers #Huntingtons #HD

We're recruiting a Senior Research Technician to join our group at the Huntington's Disease Centre - find out more: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Stopping C-A-G Repeat Expansion In Its Tracks ift.tt/0ij8tT1