This year’s Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecture will take place in the evening of Tuesday 22nd September before a live audience at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The Lecture will also be streamed live to our online audience.
The 2026 Edinburgh Parkinson’s Lecturer is Prof Miratul Muqit (pictured below). The title of Miratul’s Lecture is:
Power failure in the Brain: the mitochondrial basis of Parkinson’s Disease
Prof Miratul Muqit is the inaugural Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute Parkinson’s Research Centre, based at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a dual appointment as Professor of Experimental Neurology and Consultant Neurologist at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in Dundee. He is also an Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Co-Investigator and a SPARK NS Investigator. He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University before completing a PhD at University College London.
His research group is world-renowned for making fundamental discoveries of how mutations in two genes – PINK1 and PRKN – lead to the accumulation of damaged mitochondria in brain cells. This has contributed to the development of targeted therapies designed to remove damaged mitochondria which have entered Phase 1 clinical trials for Parkinson’s patients. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Registration for FREE tickets to attend IN PERSON or WATCH LIVE ONLINE will be available soon.