The 23-year-old students of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thomas Bikias, Roni Lassi and Aggeliki Papathanasiou, created Tremor FreeMe, a start-up company focusing on Parkinson’s in order to reduce or even eliminate the symptom of trembling in...
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Greek researchers’ discovery sparks new hope for Parkinson’s cure
[:el] A team of Greek researchers has discovered a substance that successfully treated laboratory mice suffering from the equivalent of human Parkinson’s Disease, creating new hope of an eventual cure for humans. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Greek researcher sheds light in Parkinson’s mechanism in the brain
[:el] Researchers led by a Greek scientist, may be closer to unraveling the underlying causes of Parkinson’s disease, after identifying the point at which alpha-synuclein – a protein believed to play a key role in the condition – becomes toxic to the brain. First author...
Researchers create ‘Mini-Brains’ in lab to study neurological diseases
[:el] Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with the participation of a Greek researcher, announced at a conference for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, they have successfully developed “mini-brains” made up of neurons and cells of the human...
A Cretan scientist in the fight against Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease
Professor Nicholas D. Mazarakis holds the Lucas-Lee chair of Molecular BioMedicine and is head of Gene Therapy in Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is a molecular neuroscientist with an international reputation in gene therapy of neurological diseases. Nicholas Mazarakis is from Crete....