News & Events
03 May 2019
Sue Noy joins HEROES project
Sue Noy was joined to HEROES project on September 2018. Sue is a member of the LonDownS Consortium mouse work stream and is involved in phenotyping novel mouse models of DS and AD-DS neurodegeneration using a range of immunohistochemical techniques. Sue read Zoology and Human Physiology at the University of London and completed a Ph.D in invertebrate neuroscience studying the distribution and c...
29 April 2019
World Down Syndrome Day Celebration 2019 by LonDownS Consortium
HEROES partners from UK organized and participated on several activities in the World Down Syndrome Day. This is the third year that the LonDownS Consortium celebrates World Down Syndrome Day with a science communication event for people who have Down syndrome, their families and carers. The event, hosted in the state-of-the-art Francis Crick Institute in London on 21st of March , had three goa...
15 April 2019
Marta Fructuoso joins HEROES project
Marta Fructuoso joined the HEROES project on February 2018 as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Poitier’s team (Partner 2). Her research aims at investigating whether a defect in the endo-lysosomal pathway in neurons from the locus coeruleus may be a shared mechanism contributing to dementia in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and Down syndrome. She will...
15 April 2019
Maartje de Vries joins HEROES project
Maartje de Vries, MSc joined the HEROES project on October 2018 as a PhD student at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Alzheimer Center in the Netherlands (Partner 4; lead by Prof. Dr. P. De Deyn). She will be involved in performing neuroimaging in patients, using positron emission tomography (PET) to characterize the noradrenergic system in vivo. Since evidence shows that noradrene...
02 December 2018
The Down syndrome ECNP network met at the ECNP congress 2018
The Down syndrome ECNP network met at the ECNP congress 2018 in Barcelona on the 8th of October 2018. Marie-Claude Potier presented an update of the achievements obtained during the last year. A preclinical and clinical research project leaded by Prof Renata Bartesaghi was presented focusing on improving cognitive performance after promoting neurogenesis in Down syndrome mouse models and patien...