Congratulations to our wonderful scientists from the Platt and Rahim labs, who successfully completed their cycle and canoe challenge! The first day saw them cycling around 54 miles having been diverted through a nature reserve on grass and floods because of an HS2 road closure. The second day brought the usual periods of difficult weather,…
Dear NPRF golf supporters. First & foremost I hope you and your families remain well in what has been a challenging and difficult year. When I wrote my previous email to you in March of last year, I would never have imagined that we’d all still be in lockdown nearly 12 months later, our lives…
Our wonderful Niemann Pick scientists are once again taking on a challenge to raise money for the NPRF and Niemann-Pick UK on Sunday, 27th September. This year’s challenge is to cycle from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford through Oxfordshire, visiting 20 villages as part of the NPUK 20 in 2020 Challenge.…
Congratulations to Simon Wheeler and Dan Sillence from De Montfort University, Leicester who’s research paper on Riemann-Pick type C disease: cellular pathology and pharmacotherapy received some of the most downloads in the 12 months from January 2018 to December 2019. The article was published at the end of the period, which makes the award even…
A collaboration of funding between the NPRF and Ryklow Charitable Trust supported Simon Wheeler and Dan Sillence at De Montfort University, Leicester looking into the cellular pathology and pharmacotherapy in NPC disease. This successful research has resulted in a paper being published in the Journal of Neurochemistry. To read the paper, please follow the link…
Our wonderful scientists are once again taking on a challenge to raise money for the NP UK and the NPRF. This year they are going to bike, walk and canoe their way from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford to the Niemann Pick UK family conference in Wyboston Lakes in Bedfordshire. The…
A massive congratulations to the Ashington Page team who finished their Ridgeway Challenge on the 1st September walking the final 25 miles from Chinnor to Ivinghoe Beacon. They’ve kindly taken on this challenge to raise funds for the NPRF and we can’t thank them enough for al their support. It’s not too late to support…
The team at Ashington Page are back out on the Ridgeway looking to complete Day 3 of their challenge. Today’s trek will see them walk 24 miles from Streatley to Chinnor. Hopefully the weather will be kinder today! Good luck to the team and thank you to everyone who has already supported them and the…
Congratulations to Tracey and Belinda from Ashington Page Beaconsfield, who successfully completed Day 2 of their Ridgeway Challenge on Sunday. Perfect walking weather helped them set a great pace and apparently the views were amazing! Day 3 is in August, so further updates to follow. Thanks to Ashington Page for choosing the NPRF to benefit…
As a small charity we are eternal grateful to everyone who organises events, raising much needed funds for the NPRF. We are also fortunate that our local community is so amazing and keep rising to various challenges helping us continue to support research. One team doing that is the team at Ashington Page in Beaconsfield…
