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Dr Lauren Byrne
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Principal investigator of @hob-lab.bsky.social at @ucl-hd.bsky.social. HD researcher and family advocate. Opinions are my own.
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Here's an open access link to full text of our paper shared last week! rdcu.be/evKF9
Evaluating finger-prick blood collection for remote quantification of neurofilament light in neurological diseases
rdcu.be
July 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology ready to (platform) party this morning! @uclqsion.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to all of our graduates from the @uclbrainscience.bsky.social & wishing you all every success for the future! #UCLgrad
July 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Happy to have played a small part in testing this next generation of blood biomarker tests across different dementias: Unravelling the plasma proteome: Pioneering biomarkers for differential dementia diagnosis alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Unravelling the plasma proteome: Pioneering biomarkers for differential dementia diagnosis
INTRODUCTION Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) is challenging due to overlapping symptoms with other dementias and the invasiveness of current biomarkers. This study introduces the NULISA platform...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I am unbelievably proud to have my first senior author paper published today! It was a long slog through multiple review cycles but we got there!

A big thank you to my lab members and all the collaborators and participants who contributed to this work! 🥲
July 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Where else are we planning to open HDClarity sites?

We are currently in the process of opening recruitment to the study into other countries, including Melbourne, Australia, and Lisbon, Portugal.
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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A series of digital tests carried out via a smartphone app could enhance the detection of disease progression in #HuntingtonsDisease and improve the efficiency of clinical trials, finds research led by scientists at @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social and Roche including @profwild.bsky.social
Smartphone tests could accelerate drug development for Huntington’s disease
A series of digital tests, carried out via a smartphone app, could enhance the detection of disease progression in Huntington’s disease and improve the efficiency of clinical trials, finds research le...
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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New paper in BRAIN from Team Wild and Roche: A digital motor score for sensitive detection of progression in Huntington’s disease (open access)

doi.org/10.1093/brai...
A digital motor score for sensitive detection of progression in Huntington’s disease
Giboin et al. introduce a new motor score that can be used to monitor Huntington’s disease progression. Co-designed by people with Huntington’s disease and
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM