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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).
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 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 ...
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 ...
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have shown that genetic messages are misplaced in nerve cells in a model ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).