Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 24/08/2018 - 15:22
Congratulations to Matthew White, recipient of this year’s Sir Michael Berridge Prize. The prize is awarded for his contributions to research creating and using a mouse model to learn more about the molecular biology of motor neuron disease, specifically a type known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD). This research was published in the leading neuroscience journal Nature Neuroscience earlier this year and the paper describes the creation and detailed analysis of a mouse model which replicates the human occurrence of the disease as closely as possible. The paper reports a possible new link between certain dementia-related proteins and ALS-FTD and suggests some possible new treatment approaches. Matthew is now based at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at King’s College London.