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Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) is a dementia research charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1992 as the Alzheimer's Research Trust.. ARUK funds scientific studies to find ways to treat, cure or prevent all forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia.
UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging; The institute also has active collaborative research programmes with the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and ...
[1] [2] She became Centre Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute's hub at University College London in spring 2020. [3] She was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1987) and completed her PhD at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1991. At Cambridge she was a student of Sydney Brenner's department.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in the UK and affects memory, thinking and other mental abilities. It is a progressive condition which means symptoms develop gradually ...
Professor Paul Morgan, Interim Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute Cardiff, at Cardiff University in Wales, said that while NICE's decision would disappoint people with high hopes for ...
Alzheimer's Society is a United Kingdom care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers. It operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, [2] [3] while its sister charities Alzheimer Scotland [4] and Alzheimer Society of Ireland cover Scotland and the Republic of Ireland respectively.
In 2023, both Carol and Stuart Jennings were appointed honorary Vice-Presidents of the Alzheimer's Society, acknowledging their "extraordinary contribution to the field of dementia research". [ 1 ] [ 20 ] To further honour their legacy, a new research fellowship was launched to support emerging researchers in Alzheimer’s disease.
The Young Dementia Network was established in 2016, before being absorbed into Dementia UK, following a merger with YoungDementia UK in November 2020. It is intended to provide opportunity for knowledge share, campaigning and collaboration between professionals and those affected by young onset dementia .