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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jul 21

Shout out to Josephine Pedder and Andrew Sellin for presenting at the meeting and congratulations to Jo for winning the Best PhD student presentation award!

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fantastic 14th UK & Ireland Early Career blood-brain barriers meeting last week!
Many thanks to the local hosts, Avril Reddy & Natalie Hudson from Matt Campbell lab at Trinity College Dublin for an excellent meeting showcasing early career research on CNS barriers.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jul 11

I gave a talk yesterday at the bionow Neuroscience 2025 conference on “Crossing the blood–brain barrier: emerging therapeutic strategies”. Many thanks for the organisers for the invite and was great to see the depth and breadth of neuroscience research from both industry and academic scientists!

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jul 2

The British Association for Psychopharmacology summer meeting showcased cutting edge psychopharmacology research and was an excellent meeting!

David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congratulations to Leon Lane, an undergraduate pharmacology student, who was awarded a British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP) Summer Research Internship. Leon presented his research involving scopolamine and glycopyrrolate at the BAP summer meeting as a poster presentation. Well done, Leon!

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jun 20

Many thanks to Paulina Kolasinska-Zwierz for the invite and all the excellent questions after my talk – was a stimulating and interesting day!

David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jun 20

Was great to hear about Alchemab work on resilient individuals and how to identify antibodies with similar properties as novel therapeutics. Also good to discuss the challenges of the blood-brain barrier in the context of drug discovery and development.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excellent visit to Alchemab Therapeutics yesterday to give an invited talk on “Crossing the blood–brain barrier: emerging therapeutic strategies”.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · May 22

Looking forward to the next meeting in a years’ time and for the ongoing enrichment and differing focus that collaborating with industry gives to a project!

David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · May 22

There was an excellent range of posters and talks from UCB funded PhD students reflecting the cutting-edge science that is performed with academic collaborators. Also, the application of this research to aid in the R&D process was clear and lead to a vibrate and informative meeting.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · May 22

Attended a stimulating UCB Pharma PhD Day today. Was a great opportunity for Andrew Sellin to present on his UCB funded PhD project involving the blood-brain barrier.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · May 1

Some of the Dickens Lab attended #BNA2025 this week -right here in our home city of Liverpool! 🧠✨
Fantastic to see such a wide range of neuroscience topics and brilliant presentations throughout the festival. #Neuroscience #BNA #Liverpool

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Apr 24

Great visit by our UCB Pharma collaborators to Universty of Liverpool to discuss Andrews ongoing PhD project focused on developing a state of the art blood-brain barrier model using an organ on a chip platform. This aims to surpass current methodologies for testing drug permeability across the BBB

David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Apr 14

Great visit to Revivocell Ltd. today at Daresbury Laboratory!

I meet up with Abdullah Talari and we focused on the potential of NANOSTACKS technology to enhance in vitro blood-brain barrier modelling -an exciting step forward for neuropharmacology and translational research.

David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Mar 27

Many thanks for the team at Sygnature Discovery for inviting me to give a guest lecture on "Crossing the blood–brain barrier: emerging therapeutic strategies". Was great to meet the team, chat about drug transporters, DMPK and discuss the challenge of drug delivery to the brain! #Sygnature Discovery

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Feb 26

Delighted that the Campbell Lab, based at Trinity College Dublin, will host the 14th UK & Ireland Early Career Blood-Brain Barrier Symposium on the 17th of July 2025! Further Info: bbbsymposium.com & to register: ti.to/genetics/uk-... @mattcampbelltcd.bsky.social

UK & Ireland Early Career Blood-Brain Barrier Symposium

The UK & Ireland Early Career Blood-Brain Barrier Symposium series provides an opportunity for early career researchers to present their research on the BBB

bbbsymposium.com

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Feb 20

Our review is now out in the March print issue of Lancet Neurology!

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jan 23

Our review is now out in Lancet Neurology on "Crossing the Blood–Brain Barrier: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Neurological Disease". We highlight several pioneering strategies that show promise for safely bypassing this barrier.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kUHI5FFzL...

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Sarah Passey @soggous.bsky.social · Jan 23

New Personal View online at The Lancet Neurology, looking at some emerging strategies to get drugs across the blood–brain barrier #neurology @thelancet.bsky.social This paper came about after I attended a talk at the Festival of Neuroscience in 2023 #neuroscience www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Crossing the blood–brain barrier: emerging therapeutic strategies for neurological disease

The blood–brain barrier is a physiological barrier that can prevent both small and complex drugs from reaching the brain to exert a pharmacological effect. For treatment of neurological diseases, drug...

www.thelancet.com

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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · Jan 25

Here is an important read from an important journal ! To quote @davidsdickens.bsky.social from his earlier post, the authors "highlight several pioneering strategies that show promise for safely bypassing this barrier." #BloodBrainBarrier #cerebrovascular www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Crossing the blood–brain barrier: emerging therapeutic strategies for neurological disease

The blood–brain barrier is a physiological barrier that can prevent both small and complex drugs from reaching the brain to exert a pharmacological effect. For treatment of neurological diseases, drug...

www.thelancet.com

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jan 23

Our review is now out in Lancet Neurology on "Crossing the Blood–Brain Barrier: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Neurological Disease’. We highlight several pioneering strategies that show promise for safely bypassing this barrier.

University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · Jan 23

NEWS | @liverpooluni.bsky.social scientists and collaborators have highlighted the most effective treatments for neurological diseases by overcoming one of medicine’s most difficult challenges: the blood–brain barrier🩸

Read more ⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/22/r...

@livunihls.bsky.social

An illustration of a head and brain with text overlaid that reads, 'NEWS: Revealing insights into neurological disease treatment'

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jan 23

My lab has extensive expertise in targeted drug delivery to the brain and has established a cutting-edge cellular BBB model for drug and disease modelling. This means we are at the forefront of research into this exciting area of unmet need. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/22/r...

Revealing insights into neurological disease treatment - University of Liverpool News

Revealing insights into neurological disease treatment

news.liverpool.ac.uk

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Jan 23

Our review is now out in Lancet Neurology on "Crossing the Blood–Brain Barrier: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Neurological Disease". We highlight several pioneering strategies that show promise for safely bypassing this barrier.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kUHI5FFzL...

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Dec 13

As crossing this barrier is a major stumbling block for the development of new treatments for brain cancers.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Dec 13

Great short talk by Jo on the blood-brain barrier at the recent Brain Tumour North West meeting. Jo is developing a novel, biologically relevant, in vitro model of the blood-brain tumour barrier (BBTB) using a cutting edge stem-cell derived model.

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David Dickens @davidsdickens.bsky.social · Dec 7

The Dickens Lab is a vibrant and welcoming team that has expertise in the blood-brain barrier, membrane transporters and psychopharmacology. We are always looking for new students, projects and collaborations so please feel free to reach out to me directly