lay-summaries-group-2017 | BRAIN UK | University of Southampton

Lay Summaries for all the studies supported by BRAIN UK within the past 12 months.

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BRAIN UK Study Ref	Lay Summary	Project Status
23/014	Delineating the neuropathophysiological mechanisms underpinning severe drug-resistant epilepsy in Alpers’ syndrome	Active
23/015	Epidemiologic, Histologic, and Molecular Features of Methylation Class Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma	Active
23/016	Verifying the surrogate marker, NCOA2, for identifying the HEY1-NCOA2 fusion gene in mesenchymal chondrosarcoma (MCS)	Active
23/017	AN1792 immunotherapy effects on plaque-associated synapse loss and gliosis	Active
23/018	A Study of Tumours and Embryology of the Meninges and Skull (STEMS)	Active
23/019	Mass spectrometry mapping of childhood primary and recurrent cerebellar brain tumours	Active
23/020	Investigation the role of Cellular Prion protein (PrP C) in multi drug resistance (MDR) in schwannoma and meningioma tumours	Active
23/021	Expression of OxR1 in hypothalamus and pons from normal donors and those with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS	Active
23/022	Understanding Porphyromonas gingivalis Infection in Alzheimer’s Disease	Active
23/023	Understanding microenvironmental determinants of glioblastoma invasion	Active
23/024	The multifaceted role of MMPs and TIMPs in AD after immunotherapy	Active
23/025	Development of a mass-spectrometry tissue classifier for rapid diagnosis of brain tumours	Active
23/026	Genome and transcriptome analysis in DRPLA, other rare repeat expansion disorders and undiagnosed inherited ataxia tissue	Active
23/027	Molecular characterisation of novel and rare subtypes of high-grade glioma occurring in the paediatric and young adult age groups	Active
24/001	The mosaic brain: a new diagnostic approach in focal epilepsies	Active
24/002	Characterization of rare neuronal and glial tumour types to increase diagnostic accuracy, identify treatment targets and improve prognostication	Active
24/003	Investigation of corticogenesis defects in Dravet Syndrome patients	Active
24/004	P16 expression as a surrogate marker for homozygous deletion of CDKN2A in IDH-mutant astrocytomas	Active
24/005	Leveraging Human Cell Atlas technologies to shed light on the immune aetiology of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy	Active

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