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Research 5 December 2018
The Lily Foundation has continued its strong working partnership with the NHS by co-funding a clinical studies day with leading mitochondrial specialists in Oxford.
Research 5 November 2018
Members of The Lily Foundation Medical Board were among experts from across the mitochondrial field who attended a conference addressing the issue of potentially harmful drugs used by mitochondrial patients.
Research 16 October 2018
How do you smuggle health-giving enzymes past the body's natural immune system? A Lily-funded project to develop a therapy for MNGIE syndrome is tackling that problem, and looks set to expand scientific understanding of mitochondrial disease in the process. We hear from Dr Bridget Bax, the project's principal investigator at St George's University in London, and postdoctoral research assistant Michelle Levene.
Research 24 September 2018
Three members of The Lily Foundation Medical Board were part of a collaborative team who recently published a study investigating the clinical features of POLG disease in children.
Research 12 July 2018
Armed with Charlie her sub-cellular microscope, Eszter Dombi is part of a new generation of talented scientists leading the way in the field of mitochondrial research. Here she talks about her Lily-funded lab work at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Research 6 July 2018
A mitochondrial research nurse based at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and funded by The Lily Foundation, Colwynn Phillips represents the best of our charity's fruitful working relationship with the NHS. Here she talks about her dual role supporting affected families and coordinating a patient cohort.
Research 28 June 2018
Leading medical journal The Lancet has published a scientific review written by Professor Shamima Rahman, who is a member of The Lily Foundation Medical Board and has a research project funded by the charity.
Research 24 June 2018
The Lily Foundation has announced funding for important new research into nucleoside therapy as a treatment for mitochondrial depletion syndromes.
Research 24 May 2018
The Lily Foundation recently attended two conferences to hear about the latest developments in mitochondrial research. These were the 11th Annual UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and Mitochondrial Medicine 2018 at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton. Here we share some of the highlights from both events.
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