{"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":"2026-05-01T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:34:36","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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/12\/IMG_0220.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns brgr promo-panel light-bg border is-reverse-tablet is-reverse-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-a5331a9e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column promo-content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/alex-hallatt\/\">Alex Hallatt<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">AHallatt001@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div style=\"background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2025\/02\/Alex_Hallatt_reduced-e1738861061821.png&apos;);background-position:50% 0;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:auto;\" class=\"wp-block-group split-promo-image is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained has-background\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns brgr promo-panel light-bg border is-reverse-tablet is-reverse-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-a5331a9e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column promo-content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/lite-team\/giorgia-kidd\/\">Giorgia Kidd<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">GKidd001@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div style=\"background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/Giorgia-photo-for-profile.jpg&apos;);background-position:50% 0;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:auto;\" class=\"wp-block-group split-promo-image is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained has-background\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns brgr promo-panel light-bg border is-reverse-tablet is-reverse-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-a5331a9e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column promo-content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/jack-robertson\/\">Jack Robertson<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Leader, Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">JRobertson002@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div 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style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/aina-urbina-teixidor\/\">Aina Urbina Teixidor<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicinal \/ Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">AUrbinateixidor001@dundee.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div style=\"background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/aina-urbina-teixidor.jpg&apos;);background-position:50% 0;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:auto;\" class=\"wp-block-group split-promo-image is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained 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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":5058,"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":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3753\/revisions\/5149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5058"}],"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}]}}