Recent news:

June 2010: Tom Hutson has returned to our lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Welcome back!

Mar 2010: Thanks to the Royal Society for providing us with Research Grant funding. This seed-corn funding will allow us to buy equipment for a new cutting-edge project.

Mar 2010: Thanks to the BBSRC for funding from their International Scientific Interchange Scheme. This funding will allow training and initiation of collaborations at a workshop run by Plexon.

Jan 2010: Congratulations to Sara Soleman, who is first author on our new paper which describes our model of stroke in aged rats.

Oct 2009: Thanks to the Henry Smith Charity for providing funding to screen novel candidate regeneration-associate genes. This grant will support Tom Hutson as a postdoc in my lab for one year.

Aug 2009 : New resources added to this website. Check out Experimental Design and Data Handling

Fed 2009: I teach in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Teaching materials for our undergraduate course "Animal Models of Disease and Injury" are on Virtual Campus.

Feb 2009: Kerstin Iffland, who is studying for a Master's in the Netherlands, has joined my lab to develop gene therapy vectors for RNAi.

Jan 2009: Alan Kerby has joined my lab as an MRes student. He's helping us test novel gene therapy vectors in vivo.

Oct 2008: I have a short article published in The Biochemist. Download it here.

Oct 2008: Dee Duricki joined my lab as my third PhD student. She's working on a project testing potential therapies for stroke in aged rats, with fMRI as one of our outcome measures.

Aug 2008: Links to my Tanzania adventure including rare maps of the Amani Nature Reserve (Sigi Trail). Takes a while to load...

Mar 2008: Talk for free via Skype including videoconferencing. Call lawrence.moon

Feb 2008: More resources added to Materials for Teaching.

Dec 2007: Directions to the lab via GoogleMaps

Oct 2007: Panoramas now also as thumbnails

Oct 2007: Viral vector core established with John Grist in charge of production. Go here.

June 2007: Sara Soleman has joined my lab as a PhD student. Amongst other things, she'll be working on the MRC grant mentioned below.

March 2007: Dan Gonzalez-Carter joined my lab as an MSc student. He helped set up the model systems required for the MRC grant mentioned below.

January 2007: Obtained a grant from the Medical Research Council. Project aim is to determine methods for promoting recovery of upper limb function after unilateral cerebral ischemia (stroke).

October 2006: Tom Hutson has joined my lab. As my first PhD student, he'll be developing non-integrating lentiviral vectors capable of mediating RNA interference in neurons.

August 2006: Sandrine Thuret, Rusty Gage and I had a paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. It describes potential therapies for spinal cord injury. We hope it's up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible and useful (rather than Just Another Review)...

You can legally (!) download a PDF copy via Wingsforlife.com or from my Publications webpage .