This year’s Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecture took place on Thursday 2nd October before a live audience at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The Lecture was also streamed live to an online audience.
You can now view the recoding of the lecture on the Branch YouTube channel
The 2025 Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecturer was Agnete Kirkeby (pictured below). The title of Agnete’s Lecture was:
Stem cell therapies for Parkinson’s Disease – where are we now?
Agnete Kirkeby is an Associate Professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Together with collaborators from Lund University, University of Cambridge and Novo Nordisk, Dr. Kirkeby has developed a stem cell-based dopamine cell product for treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (STEM-PD), which entered clinical trial in 2023 in Sweden and UK for treatment of individuals with moderate Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Kirkeby and her group further work on the preclinical development of stem cell therapies for treatment of dementia symptoms in PD as well as on using stem cell models for identifying novel drugs for inhibiting the pathology progression in PD.
View the Lecture Programme 2025