Watch Prof Tom Foltynie on the topic of repurposing diabetes drugs for Parkinson's disease - Recording now available

[Michel0220]

Thank you to Prof Tom Foltynie for his time and expertise last night on the topic of repurposing diabetes drugs, including Exenatide, for Parkinson's disease.

It was an excellent presentation and discussion that brings us all up to date with the latest in the trials, including feedback from some of you actually involved in the trials, so thank you all for your contributions.

If you missed this presentation, or just want to watch it again to fully understand the potential of what was discussed, please click on this link to watch the recording.

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Professor Tom Foltynie is Professor of Neurology in the Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Neurology and Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He is responsible for Movement disorder patients, particularly Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients undergoing advanced treatments such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Apomorphine and Duodopa. He is chief investigator for a series of trials of Exenatide- a potential neurorestorative treatment for PD, as well as the lead clinician at UCL for trials of alpha synuclein vaccination for PD and Oxford Biomedica/ Axovant’s gene therapy product for PD, and the Transeuro PD cell transplantation programme.

[binnyrox]

Thanks very much Michel. I watched the event Live and it was very helpful Much appreciation

Kindest regards

BR

[Michel0220 in reply to binnyrox]

Thank you very much binnyrox, I am glad that you found it interesting.

[gaga1958]

wow, I just found you. You have the most interesting speakers. thxs

[Michel0220 in reply to gaga1958]

Thank you very much Gaga!

[Zella23]

Thanks very much for this. I had registered for the live event but unfortunately we had to go out. We ll catch up with it on YouTube.

[Seamus6]

Thanks for sharing, lots of good info here.Smart cookie that man!

[kaypeeoh]

I watched the entire 80-minute video. I think he said elevated BMI without diabetes correlates with lower incidence of PD. Good news for me I guess.