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03/11/2023

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Dr Cath Mummery

Name:

Dr Cath Mummery

Job Title:

Consultant Neurologist, Head of clinical trials Dementia Research Centre

Place of work / study:

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Area of Research:

Dementia and early phase clinical trials

How is your research funded:

NHS / UCLH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

Tell us a little about yourself:

I am a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. I am chair of the NIHR Dementia Translational Research Collaboration, building a national unified trials network for early phase clinical trials and working with the Dementia Mission to accelerate and enhance dementia translational research in novel treatments. I am Head of Clinical Trials at the Dementia Research Centre, University College London. Over the past 17 years, I have been chief investigator on over 20 early phase drug trials of potential disease modifying agents in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and genetic forms of AD and frontotemporal dementia, including immunotherapies against amyloid and tau, and novel mechanisms in first-in-human trials including checkpoint inhibitors, gene silencing and AAV genetic therapies. As clinical lead for the UCL Neurogenetic Therapies Programme, I lead a programme of innovative collaboration between industry and academia to accelerate progress in genetic therapies in dementia. My driving ambition is to ensure we not only have treatments that can alter the course of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, but that we can deliver them promptly, safely and equitably.

Tell us a fun fact about yourself:

I was a dancing nurse in the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Why did you choose to work in dementia:

I was always fascinated by psychology, and wanted to combine an interest in medicine and the brain with detectiver work. My work on the brain led me to understanding more about dementia and to a career trying to understand the causes better adn therefore treatments that migth help the patients we see in clinic every day.