The new Collaborative Award builds on the MRC BNDU’s interactions with colleagues at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre, and will bring three Oxford teams together with researchers based at the University of Ulm, Germany, and at University College London. As part of this collaboration, the MRC BNDU will leverage its leading expertise in high-resolution in vivo phenotyping of rodent models of Parkinson’s.
Wellcome Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and speed the pace of discovery. The Awards fund teams of researchers, consisting of independent research groups, to work together on the most important scientific problems that can only be solved through collaborative efforts.
Professor Peter Magill, who will lead the MRC BNDU’s contribution to the collaboration, commented, 'This Collaborative Award presents an exciting opportunity for Unit researchers to team up with other experts and tackle the science from different angles using complementary approaches. It is an excellent fit with the Unit’s and Department’s wider strategies supporting both fundamental and translational neuroscience research.'