Impaired dynein function preserves spinal interneuron survival and positioning in an ALS-like mouse model

PLOS One – 2026, 21, e0346246. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346246

Eleni Christoforidou, Jordan S. Rowe, Fabio A. Simoes, Raphaelle Cassel, Luc Dupuis, Peter Nigel Leigh, Majid Hafezparast

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2026


2026


Development of a translational strategy for using TIMP-3 to inhibit aggrecanase activity in osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2025; 34, 93-104 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2025.09.002

Fabio A Simoes, Greg Scutt, Manuela Mengozzi, Simon A Mitchell, Jacob Keen, Katherine A Staines, Linda Troeberg, Blandine Poulet, Andrew A Pitsillides, Lisa M Mullen

2025


Computational modelling of aggressive B-cell lymphoma

Biochemical Society Transactions – 2025, 53, 723-735. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20253039

Jayawant, Eleanor S., Aimilia Vareli, Andrea Pepper, Chris Pepper, Fabio Simoes and Simon Mitchell

2025


Systems biology-enabled targeting of NF-κΒ and BCL2 overcomes microenvironment-mediated BH3-mimetic resistance in DLBCL

Cell Death & Disease – 2025, 16, 620. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-025-07942-0

Vareli, Aimilia, Haripriya Vaidehi Narayanan, Heather Clark, Eleanor Jayawant, Hui Zhou, Yi Liu, Emma Kennedy, Lauren Stott, Fabio Simoes, Alexander Hoffmann, Andrea Pepper, Chris Pepper and Simon Mitchell

2025


A Novel In Vitro Model of the Bone Marrow Microenvironment in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Identifies CD44 and Focal Adhesion Kinase as Therapeutic Targets to Reverse Cell Adhesion-Mediated Drug Resistance

Cancers - 2025, 17, 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17010135

Ladikou, Eleni E., Kim Sharp, Fabio A. Simoes, John R. Jones, Thomas Burley, Lauren Stott, Aimilia Vareli, Emma Kennedy, Sophie Vause, Timothy Chevassut, Amarpreet Devi, Iona Ashworth, David M. Ross, Tanja Nicole Hartmann, Simon A. Mitchell, Chris J. Pepper, Giles Best and Andrea G. S. Pepper

2025


Severe dynein dysfunction in cholinergic neurons exacerbates ALS-like phenotypes in a new mouse model

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease 1871 (1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2024.167540

Fabio A. Simoes, Eleni Christoforidou, Raphaelle Cassel, Luc Dupuis and Majid Hafezparast.

2024


2024


2024

An ALS-Associated Mutation Dysregulates Microglia-Derived Extracellular MicroRNAs in a Sex-Specific Manner.

Disease Models & Mechanisms 17 (5). https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050638

Eleni Christoforidou, Libby Moody, Greig Joilin, Fabio A Simoes, David Gordon, Kevin Talbot, and Majid Hafezparast.


Aberrant Dynein Function Promotes TDP-43 Aggregation and Upregulation of P62 in Male Mice Harboring Transgenic Human TDP-43.

Frontotemporal Degeneration 24 (7–8): 746–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/21678421.2023.2239276

Eleni Christoforidou, Fabio A Simoes, David Gordon, Kevin Talbot, and Majid Hafezparast.

2023


Potential of Non-Coding RNA as Biomarkers for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (23): 14554. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232314554

Fabio A. Simoes, Greig Joilin, Oliver Peters, Luisa-Sophie Schneider, Josef Priller, Eike Jakob Spruth, Ina Vogt, Okka Kimmich, Annika Spottke, and Daniel C Hoffmann.

2022


Drosophila TDP-43 Dysfunction in Glia and Muscle Cells Cause Cytological and Behavioural Phenotypes That Characterize ALS and FTLD.

Human Molecular Genetics 22 (19): 3883–93. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddt243

Diaper, Danielle C, Yoshitsugu Adachi, Luke Lazarou, Max Greenstein, Fabio A Simoes, Angelique di Domenico, Daniel A Solomon, Simon Lowe, Rawan Alsubaie, and Daryl Cheng.

2013