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Sep 13, 2024 - Research

Promising new Alzheimer’s treatment targets and destroys tau aggregates

A team of scientists from the UK DRI at Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) have developed new therapies...

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Nov 13, 2024 - Update

Multimillion major new funding for developing and delivering solutions for people with dementia

The UK Dementia Research Institute has today announced multimillion major new government funding to “supercharge” advances in research and develop and deliver new solutions for...

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Oct 24, 2024 - Update

New £20m Dementia Trials Accelerator will increase number of dementia trial participants to “tens of thousands”

A new “Dementia Trials Accelerator”, backed by £20m of government funding, has been launched to increase the number of people participating in dementia clinical trials...

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Apr 20, 2017 - Blog

UK DRI Centre Director Giovanna Mallucci discovers two repurposed drugs that arrest neurodegeneration in mice

Professor Mallucci's team finds two drugs which block a major brain cell death pathway and...

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Apr 06, 2017 - Blog

Centre selection marks huge leap in UK DRI establishment

The selection of the UK DRI centres, associate directors and their foundation programmes marks a...

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Mar 31, 2017 - Blog

Events: where to meet the UK DRI in 2017

Representatives from the UK DRI will available to meet at a range of events throughout...

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Mar 30, 2017 - Update

MRC Momentum Awards give £3.9m to boost UK dementia research base for the UK DRI

In October 2016, the MRC awarded five universities a total of £3.9 million to grow...

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Mar 13, 2017 - Blog

How we selected world-leading UK DRI centres

Following visits to every applicant university, who all showed exceptionally strong quality, the panel had...

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Mar 13, 2017 - Blog

Creating a culture of patient and public involvement at the UK DRI

In December 2016, we announced Professor Bart De Strooper as Director of the UK DRI...

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Shaping the future of dementia research: Meet the UK DRI’s newest Emerging Leaders

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