Blog – PhD Fear (a personal account)
EditorHow can you deal with PhD Fear, this great blog from Thesis Whisperer is by Elaine Campbell a Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School,
Dissemination
Building a culture of research impact
Louise Shaxson writes for the LSE Impact Blog suggesting developing a culture of engagement and collaboration, is just as important to achieving research impact.
Bump in the Road or Disaster? BACE Inhibitors Worsen Cognition
Merck shook the field with news that people on verubecestat scored worse than those on placebo – find out more in this post from AlzForum
Call for abstracts – International Lewy Body Dementia Conference
Submit your abstract by February 18, 2019 for the International Lewy Body Dementia Conference (ILBDC), taking place June 24-26 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, NV.
Clinical Research MOOC
Adam SmithThe ‘Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research’ online course starts on 11 February. In this course you will explore clinical research – its challenges and its huge benefits to modern healthcare.
Clinical Trial Design Is A Two-Way Street
CoLAB brings clinical research teams and external partners — including patients, study coordinators, nurses, and physicians — face-to-face for a dress rehearsal of a clinical trial protocol.
Communicating your research toolkit – The Health Foundation
Want to communicate your health research in a better way in 2018? This resource from The Health Foundation is the tool you need.
Confirmed: Human Pituitary Extract Linked to Amyloidosis Contains Aβ Seeds
Researchers from University College London have strengthened the case that certain medical procedures can transfer amyloid pathology between people.
Cracking the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease
With Pfizer shutting down its neuroscience unit and a long list of failed late-stage trials, the sheer difficulty of improving the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has become painfully clear. How can researchers crack the mystery of this much-feared neurodegenerative disease?
CryoEM γ-Secretase Structures Nail APP, Notch Binding
In the January 11 Science, Yigong Shi, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and colleagues present a high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of γ-secretase enfolding a fragment of APP. Find out more on their work from this post on the Alz Forum.
CSF tau and the CSF tau/ABeta ratio for the diagnosis of Dementias
This review, aims to assess the ability of CSF tau biomarkers (t-tau and p-tau) and the CSF tau (t-tau or p-tau)/ABeta ratio to enable the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award
The David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award is presented each year to the most outstanding early career researcher in the field of biomedical dementia research.