Our congratulations to Dr. Stavros Tsagkaris, from the Evelina London Children’s Hospital in London, UK and the David Marsden Award 2024 for his paper: Metabolic Patterns in Brain 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET Relate to Aetiology in Paediatric Dystonia https://dystonia-europe.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/tsagkaris-et-al-brain-656e1e43a6c91253670147.pdf On Saturday 29 June Dr. Tsagkaris was presented with the award by Dystonia Europe Executive Director Monika Benson…
Dr. Michael Zech Receives the David Marsden Award 2023
Our congratulations to Dr. Michael Zech, from the Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich and the Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, in Munich, Germany and the David Marsden Award 2023 for his paper: Biallelic AOPEP Loss-of-Function Variants Cause Progressive Dystonia with Prominent Limb Involvement. Last July Dr. Zech was presented with the…
Presentation of the DMA at the EAN 2022 Basal Ganglia Club Session
European Academy of Neurology is a non-profit, independent organisation representing more than 45,000 members, as well as 47 European national societies. The 8th Congress of the EAN took place in Vienna in June this year. EAN Congress is one of the biggest neurological events in Europe. This year 380 lecturers and 5300 onsite participants took…
David Marsden Award Winner Dr Susanne Knorr
At the end of Dystonia Europe’s annual conference Dystonia Days, President Adam Kalinowski presented the David Marsden Award to Dr Susanne Knorr from the University Hospital in Würzburg Germany, coincidentally the same place that last year’s winner was from. Susanne then went on to present her research ‘The evolution of dystonia-like movements in TOR1A rats after…
Winner of the David Marsden Award 2022 Dr. Susanne Knorr
Susanne Knorr, Senior Consultant Neurologist and Researcher Würzburg University Hospital. Photo by Stephan Röhl Our congratulations to Dr. Susanne Knorr, department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg, Germany and the David Marsden Award 2022 winner for her paper: “The evolution of dystonia-like movements in TOR1A rats after transient nerve injury is accompanied by dopaminergic dysregulation and…
