In 2025, the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) partnered with Parkinson’s UK to launch a new £10m research centre dedicated to better understanding the causes of Parkinson’s and finding urgently needed treatments for the condition. Today they announced the first Group Leader appointments to the Parkinson’s Research Centre.
Professor Miratul Muqit was recruited to lead as Centre Director with a vision to build a centre fully integrated with people with Parkinson’s, which will become one of the world’s leading centres for discovery science and translation, and deliver new ideas for better diagnosing and treating Parkinson’s in the future.
Following an international call, three of the UK’s leading Parkinson’s researchers have been appointed to UK DRI Group Leader roles:
- Professor Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford) – Next-generation human neuropathology to decode the mechanisms that drive Parkinson’s
- Professor Peter Magill (University of Oxford) - Investigating the molecular and cellular substrates of neural circuit dynamics in Parkinson’s
- Professor Henry Houlden (UCL) - Investigating the genetics of Parkinson’s and degenerative movement disorders across diverse global populations
Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences website.