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The centre will serve as a hub for the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, and an outpatient unit for the UCL Hospitals National Hospital for ...
A landmark £40 million has been awarded to the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), via the Medical Research Council (MRC), for a new hub building at University College London (UCL).
Personalised dementia tests could be rolled out “within five years”, according to a scientist behind groundbreaking research that it is hoped will lead to earlier diagnosis. The prediction ...
The UCL Drug Discovery Institute is one of the flagship facilities funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK. Led by chief scientific officer Fiona Ducotterd, its scientists hunt for new ways to fight ...
The findings, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia and led by researchers at the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at UCL, the UK DRI at the University of Cambridge, and the VIB-KU Leuven ...
A UCL research team has found clues as to why some nerve cells die in dementia and not others, in a new study in fruit flies. The Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded study, published in Cell Reports , is ...
Lead author Professor Jonathan Schott, UCL Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, said: “We found that despite people in this study all being of very similar real ...
Principal investigator, Professor Eric Brunner (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care), said: "Our research has exposed that dementia is likely to be a more urgent policy problem than ...
Led by Professor Jonathan Schott (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, honorary consultant neurologist at UCLH, and Chief Medical Officer at Alzheimer's Research UK) and Dr Ashvini Keshavan ...
Alzheimer’s disease has been considered something that happens from within — but for the first time, researchers have identified cases that were triggered by a specific medical treatment.
According to Prof Nick Fox, group leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, dementia is the most 'devastating health condition of our age'.
A landmark £40 million has been awarded to the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), via the Medical Research Council (MRC), for a new hub building at University College London (UCL).