Dr Cara Croft
@Cara_Croft
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Senior Lecturer & Group Leader @blizard_inst @QMUL : Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, AAV // Travelling, turtles, & tea. Views my own. #FirstGen #WomenInSTEM
London, England
Joined April 2012
👋2025 sees me move to @bluesky (@caracroft.bsky.social) and @LinkedIn for #dementia #research #academia #womeninSTEM chat. Follow me there!.
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RT @mrcdtpbiomed: Only ten days to go until the application for #PhD studentships closes!.To find out more about our fully funded, 4 year (….
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RT @NathanDavies50: Interested in a #dementia care phd? Come and hear from me and @ClaudiaACooper1 to learn about new opportunities from ou….
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RT @ARUKscientist: Applications to observe the Feb 2025 GRB Meeting are OPEN! . 🗓️ Date: 13–14 Feb 2025 (online).💡 Who can apply: Final-yea….
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"Removing amyloid from the brain did not reverse or slow tau pathology or alter synapse loss. Aβ immunotherapy may stimulate glial responses, but is insufficient to curb degenerative phenotypes in this model.".Nice work @lindsay__alex 🧠 👏.
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RT @martinahallegg1: Join the Hallegger Lab in Oxford! Two post-doc positions available on how altered condensation of TDP-43 changes RNA m….
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RT @susie_dent: Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Shout out to ECRs and in particular ECRs working in dementia research. Great opportunity to present your research in parliament 🇬🇧 and advocate for your science. I really enjoyed taking part as a PhD student 👩🔬.
Royal Society of Chemistry @RoySocChem.Royal Society of Biology @RoyalSocBio.Physiological Society @ThePhySoc.Nutrition Society @NutritionSoc.Institute of Physics @PhysicsNews.London Mathematical Society @LondMathSoc.Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews
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RT @DeNPRU_QM: 📢Get involved in new policy research 📢.Do you live with a neurodegenerative disease in England, or have you cared for someon….
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Yikes indeed.
"[He Jiankui's] new interest was a gene called APP. It’s known people who possess a very rare version almost never develop Alzheimer’s. In our video call, He said APP gene is main focus of his research now" - likely germline HDR Icelandic mutation, yikes.
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On #WorldAlzheimersDay I'm resharing this piece by @RosaSilverman @Telegraph.as it seems we really need to highlight that dementia is caused by diseases like Alzheimers and is not a part of growing older. @blizard_inst @racingdementia @QMULBartsTheLon .
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RT @CentreoftheCell: We're taking part in #OpenHouse today meaning our doors are open for you to come and explore. Come see us between 11am….
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RT @QMULBartsTheLon: To mark #WorldAlzheimersDay tomorrow, we've asked some of our academic colleagues who are doing incredible work to bet….
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RT @nottalexi: We have been awarded @alzassociation funding to study the epigenome of the vasculature in dementia using single nuclei appro….
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RT @blizard_inst: Help to transfer neuroscience and pharmacological discoveries into clinical use with our MSc, PGDip or PGCert in #Neurosc….
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RT @racingdementia: Today marks the start of #WorldAlzMonth . 30 days of global awareness raising, advocacy and action to challenge global….
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RT @rohitsingh8080: De novo protein design is great, but nature has millions of proteins- why not repurpose them? . Introducing Raygun, a n….
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RT @YLevites: Our paper is finally out. A lot of hard work, a lot (13 suppl tables and 12 suppl figures) data. I t….
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Cute arrival this week in time for fuelling our lab meeting today! Thanks @AlzResearchUK @AlzResearchUK @CadburyUK .Perfect timing with our ARUK pilot project starting this week with the arrival of our Research Assistant that will be investigating resilience to tau pathology!
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RT @predictPD: 📢 we are recruiting a new research assistant to work on @predictpdstudy and help with sample collection from the cohort. Fee….
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