{"id":3753,"date":"2025-02-06T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/?page_id=3753"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:33:51","slug":"lite-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/lite-team\/","title":{"rendered":"LITE Team &#8211; LRRK2 Investigative Therapeutics Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>LITE Team<\/h2>\n<p>LRRK2 Investigative Therapeutics Exchange (LITE) is a new academic-industrial global network supported by the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson\u2019s Research. Part of LRRK2 research is carried out at the CeTPD by the LITE Team, co-supervised by three PIs: Alessio Ciulli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/people\/peter-cossar\">Peter Cossar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/farnaby-group\/william-farnaby\/\">Will Farnaby<\/a>. We are working to accelerate the development of Parkinson\u2019s Disease therapeutics. The mission of this collaboration team is centred on the design, synthesis, evaluation and optimisation of induced-proximity small molecules targeting different regions of Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2). The multidisciplinary team at the CeTPD is composed of Claudine Greenwood (Cossar Group), Alex Hallatt, Jack Robertson, Aina Urbina Teixidor, Zher Yin Tan (Farnaby Group).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/12\/IMG_0220.webp\" alt=\"\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/12\/IMG_0220.jpg\" alt=\"\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/12\/IMG_0220.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<div class=\"panel \">\n<article class=\"card card--landscape card--person\" aria-label=\"Alex Hallatt\" is=\"flynt-block-card\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/alex-hallatt\/\" title=\"Alex Hallatt\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/02\/Alex_Hallatt_reduced-e1738861061821.webp\" alt=\"\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/02\/Alex_Hallatt_reduced-e1738861061821.jpg\" alt=\"\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/02\/Alex_Hallatt_reduced-e1738861061821.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<p>          <\/a><br \/>\n        <\/figure>\n<div class=\"card__text card__text--image\">\n<p class=\"card__type\">Person<\/p>\n<div class=\"card__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/alex-hallatt\/\" title=\"Alex Hallatt\">Alex Hallatt<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"card__summary\">Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"card card--landscape card--person\" aria-label=\"Giorgia Kidd\" is=\"flynt-block-card\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/lite-team\/giorgia-kidd\/\" title=\"Giorgia Kidd\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Giorgia-photo-for-profile.webp\" alt=\"Giorgia Kidd\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Giorgia-photo-for-profile.jpg\" alt=\"Giorgia Kidd\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Giorgia-photo-for-profile.jpg\" alt=\"Giorgia Kidd\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<p>          <\/a><br \/>\n        <\/figure>\n<div class=\"card__text card__text--image\">\n<p class=\"card__type\">Person<\/p>\n<div class=\"card__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/lite-team\/giorgia-kidd\/\" title=\"Giorgia Kidd\">Giorgia Kidd<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"card__summary\">Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"card card--landscape card--person\" aria-label=\"Jack Robertson\" is=\"flynt-block-card\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/jack-robertson\/\" title=\"Jack Robertson\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Jack-Robertson-photo-2.webp\" alt=\"Jack Robertson\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Jack-Robertson-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Robertson\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Jack-Robertson-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Robertson\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<p>          <\/a><br \/>\n        <\/figure>\n<div class=\"card__text card__text--image\">\n<p class=\"card__type\">Person<\/p>\n<div class=\"card__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/jack-robertson\/\" title=\"Jack Robertson\">Jack Robertson<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"card__summary\">Team Leader, Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"card card--landscape card--person\" aria-label=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\" is=\"flynt-block-card\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/aina-urbina-teixidor\/\" title=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.webp\" alt=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.jpg\" alt=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.jpg\" alt=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<p>          <\/a><br \/>\n        <\/figure>\n<div class=\"card__text card__text--image\">\n<p class=\"card__type\">Person<\/p>\n<div class=\"card__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/aina-urbina-teixidor\/\" title=\"Aina Urbina Teixidor\">Aina Urbina Teixidor<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"card__summary\">Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITE Team LRRK2 Investigative Therapeutics Exchange (LITE) is a new academic-industrial global network supported by the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson\u2019s Research. Part of LRRK2 research is carried out at the CeTPD by the LITE Team, co-supervised by three PIs: Alessio Ciulli, Peter Cossar and Will Farnaby. We are working to accelerate the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":789,"featured_media":0,"parent":188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3753","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4635,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3753\/revisions\/4635"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}