MSA Research on a Special Day
2016 October 03
Created by Ritje 7 years agoJiePie,
This is the first time that on your special day, we have our 6th International MSA Congress in Belgium.
Meet and Greet: 2 MSA research team at World MSA Day event @ UZLeuven, Belgium
October 3, 2016
The 2 winning teams of the Sophia MSA research Grand / Fund, will join the Meet & Greet session.
The venue would be at the University of Leuven - with a visit to the laboratories and an update on the on-going research.
Veerle Baekelandt Professor faculty of medicine KU Leuven and project leader. (Belgian team) “It is my ultimate dream that our research will contribute, even at long term, to an effective therapy for patients with MSA or Parkinson’s disease”
Research Group for Neurobiology and Gene Therapy - KU Leuven Kapucijnenvoer 33 i - bus 7001 – 3000 Leuven+32 (0)472 540831veerle.baekelandt@med.kuleuven.be
120.000 € (Sophia Fund)
Janice Holton, Director of Neuropathology Queen Square Brain Bank and project leader, (UK Team) “Multiple system atrophy is a devastating incurable disease affecting people in the prime of their lives. My research goals are to improve understanding of the disease mechanisms leading to treatment development and a positive impact on the lives of MSA patients and their caregivers”
Janice Holton, Director of Neuropathology Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders, Dept of Molecular NeuroscienceUCL Institute of Neurology, 1 Wakefield Street - London WC1N 1PJ+ 44(0)20-34484239janice.holton@ucl.ac.uk120.000 € (Sophia Fund)
Dr. Janice Holton, Professor of Neuropathology, Dr. Aoife Kiely and Dr. Sandrine Wauters (UK Team) would like to join for the meeting. Looking forward to the opportunity to visit Leuven and meet others working on MSA.
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