Reports from local research events

Student Talks for The Bowler Travel Bursary

Engagement work between members of the Edinburgh Branch of Parkinson’s UK and local university researchers, students and health care professionals with a research interest in Parkinson’s was started by Prof.…

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Parkinson’s and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

Our first ERIG meeting of 2023 took place online on Saturday 28th January The meeting started at 10.00am and was attended by 29 members. Our speaker was Amber Roguski, a…

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ERIG IN PERSON EVENT Saturday 3 December 2022

Our first in person ERIG event in nearly three years began at 10:00am and was attended by just over 20 members. The first talk was by Dr Martine Verheul, Institute…

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What The Parkinson’s Excellence Network can do for you & an update on local clinical trials

Dr Gordon Duncan was the speaker at a combined ERIG/Branch online meeting on Saturday 19 November 2022. The meeting began at 10:00am and was attended by over 30 members. Gordon…

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Learning to LIVE with Parkinson’s

Recently two members of our local Parkinson’s community spent time at the European Parkinson Therapy Centre in northern Italy. They returned very enthusiastic about their experience and keen to share…

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Exploring energy production and failure in Parkinson’s

The Edinburgh Parkinson’s Research Group (ERIG) invited all the other Scottish RIGs to this online talk which was held on Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 10:30. The talk was given…

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