George Tofaris
@georgetofaris
MRC Senior Clinical Fellow @The_MRC. Molecular neurodegeneration @NDCNOxford and @KavliOxford. Professor and Consultant in Neurology @UniofOxford @OUHospitals
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https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/george-tofaris 11-04-2017 14:22:30
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Enormous thanks and congratulations to our Co-Chairs Maria Grazia Spillantini and George Tofaris 👏👏👏 #Synuclein2025 #Syn2025 #Cambridge2025
Thank you Reyesneuroscience and Linköping Neuroscience community for inviting me to talk at your retreat. Great discussions surrounded by beautiful scenery!
A wonderful atmosphere today at the 7km fun run Blenheim Palace, in our case promoting the benefits of exercise in #Parkinson's. Blenheim 7k
Did you know that probable corticobasal degeneration has a long preclinical phase? Together with Xin You Tai we identified a case with a decade-long prodrome on neuroimaging. …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…
Well done to our #DPhil student Hung-Ju Chueh Tofaris Lab who won the best poster prize for his work on Neuron-Microglia interactions in an iPSC-based model of #Parkinson's disease OPDC (Parkinson's Research) Research Day!
Many congratulations to our #DPhil student Joanna Komorowska Tofaris Lab Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Oxford Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences who was awarded the Gustav Born Scholarship in Biomedical Sciences St Peter's College to study an iPSC-based model of #Parkinson's disease. Well done!
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Suman Dutta Suman Dutta for winning the Alzheimer's Research UK TVN video and flash talk awards for his research on brain-derived EVs. #Parkinson Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Oxford
Congratulations to Shijun (Victor) Yan Tofaris Lab Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Oxford for completing a very successful DPhil! With three first author papers & several awards he has been an exceptional graduate student. Well done Dr Yan! Thank you to Alex Thompson and Tim Bartels for examining
Great #CRISPR workshop at #MertonCollege organised by MacLaren Research Group Oxford where our post doc, Dr. Ana Aragón Ana Aragón-González presented her work on inducible CRISPRi gene silencing in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons from Parkinson’s patients 🧠 🔗shorturl.at/atoDj Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Well done Chen on securing the Alzheimer's Society fellowship and welcome to our lab!
Warm welcome to Amin Atashgaran !
We were awarded GOLD Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (#LEAF) standard aiming to reduce carbon impact & promote sustainable lab practices. Well done to everyone Tofaris Lab. Special thanks to Andrew Castle who spearheaded this effort!
Great to see this collaborative work from our IMPRIND Consortium led by Maria Xilouri Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens finally out. Further evidence that lowering #synuclein levels is protective in vivo! actaneurocomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
This week we celebrated Suman Dutta, who soon transitions to independence as Assistant Professor. He is the third member of Tofaris Lab to achieve this milestone! A fantastic colleague and an outstanding scientist all around. Many congratulations Suman and all the best.
🎉Huge congratulations to the Alzheimer's Research UK ‘Running Researchers’ team for raising nearly £6,000 for life-changing dementia research. ✨Special congratulations to our #DPhil Gordon for his fantastic run in the Oxford Half! 🏃🏻♂️💪 Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Oxford
📢FLYER OUT The next Queen Square Basal Ganglia Club Meeting will host Prof. Maria Grazia Spillantini from Cambridge University and Prof. George Tofaris from University of Oxford. 🌍UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London 📅03/12/2025, 4PM All welcome Please🔁 Kailash Bhatia, Clinical and Movement Neurosciences @ UCL IoN MovementDisordersUCL UCL Brain Sciences
