The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab

Actively doing clinical and lab-based research on both Parkinson's and Huntington's disease at the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. NIHR Investigator.

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

The day is FINALLY here! The green light has been given by Swedish authorities for a first-in-human clinical trial with the stem cell therapy STEM-PD for treatment of Parkinsons disease! https://t.co/WgNC6SM4pf @ParmarLab @SCICambridge @BrainRepair_VGB @Kirkeby_Lab

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

So excited to share our paper showing how blood neurofilament light levels could help predict proximity to disease onset in #Huntingtons

A mammoth 14 year study!
A spin off from our sleep work, TL:DR summary below…🧵

@PDandHDLab @HDBuzzFeed

https://t.co/SPMbRBnp2u

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

Thanks @HDBuzz for this great initiative and for all the amazing work that goes into HDBuzz articles

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Congratulations to both Marta and Maha on their recent graduations.

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

Thrilled to share the preprint of our 12-year polysomnography study in Huntington's!
TL:DR: 1) insomnia affects 90% early stage patients and links to greater cognitive problems and disease activity, independent of disease stage/meds/mood 🧵
@PDandHDLab
https://t.co/RrOZmrlOMc

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

So much brilliant food for thought at the inaugural glymphatics symposium in Lund! Thank you @GlymphaticConf @DAcharya_

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Roger's article in @F1000Research has been viewed more than 5000 times! Have a read! https://t.co/9U70gFcvPn

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Roger gave a talk last week at the German movement disorder meeting. "Deutscher Kongress fur Parkinson und Bewegungsstorungen".

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Movers & Shakers Podcast - Treatments for Parkinson's discussed by Professor Roger Barker. https://t.co/6sWRwMhs0X
#Parkinsons

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Caroline’s team shared different approaches on the importance of #immunity in #ParkinsonsDisease at 2024 @immuparknet Annual Meeting in #Belgrade. Lots of potential for fruitful collaborations! @JuliaGreenland @Marta__Camacho

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Members of the Roger Barker and Jo Jones team attending the annual meeting of the EU funded programme of work looking at brain repair and how we can do this better.

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Trevor Elliott, a research volunteer with Parkinson's disease, is walking 120km from Newcastle to Carlisle in June to raise money for our research at the John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair. If you would like make a donation to support him, please visit his JustGiving page -

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

https://t.co/jd30lsIu31

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Congratulations to the newest Dr in the house! Well deserved celebrations after many years' great work on the gut-brain axis in Parkinson's @Marta__Camacho

[Marta Camacho @Marta__Camacho]

Couldn't be happier with my PhD viva experience, a critical scientific discussion of my PhD work, followed by cake and amazing people that I am lucky enough to call friends.

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

#barkerlabequestrians reaching critical mass at this year’s lab retreat…! @PDandHDLab

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

And the view from the top… @PDandHDLab

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

Happy World Sleep Day! 🌎 😴 and what a great way to mark it with a whole session dedicated to sleep at #BrainConf2024 with
@zanna_voysey
presenting our HD-sleep work in the ECR session.

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

👏 Well done to our @zanna_voysey for coming 2nd in the ABN movement disorders meeting trainee presentations on Friday! #sleep #neurodegeneration

[Zanna Voysey @zanna_voysey]

Slow-wave sleep affects synucleinopathy and regulates proteostatic processes in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease | Science Translational Medicine https://t.co/BEDnm9jXCM

[The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab @PDandHDLab]

A very powerful and well written piece that is worth a read around #Huntingtonsdisease
@racingdementia
https://t.co/jFgizsn4iu