News & Features

All the posts every put on our website. Blogs, Podcasts, Careers Support, News and all the good stuff that you wouldn’t want to miss. Only made possible thanks to funding from our amazing partners, NIHR, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society & Race Against Dementia.

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Blog – Where would we be without international research?

14/04/2021

Dr Clarissa Giebel

Last week we learned that the overseas aid budget holders had been asked to make savings. Dr Clarissa Giebel discusses how the affects ripple through the system

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Blog – How not to win a Nobel Prize – do we need to reassess “success” in science?

12/04/2021

Professor Louise Serpell

What motivates you? Childhood ambition, making the world a better place? Professor Louise Serpell shares her own personal journey to becoming a scientist

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Podcast – NIHR Evidence Dementia Collection

12/04/2021

Dementia Researcher

Dr Emily Oliver hosts a discussion about the new NIHR Evidence Dementia Collection – for anyone who might use them, patients, carers, clinicians.

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Profile – Ann Pascoe

10/04/2021

Dementia Researcher

Caring for her husband who is living with Vascular Dementia, Founder / Chair of Dementia Friendly Communities known as Connecting Communities and NIHR Reviewer

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Profile – Nick Spirit

10/04/2021

Dementia Researcher

Stakeholder Engagement Manager ensuring that the thoughts and views of health & care professionals, patients, carers & the public are incorporated into research

Science

Dysfunctional Lysosomes Cause Ferroptosis in Neurons

08/04/2021

Dementia Researcher

A toxic brew of lysosomal lipids, reactive iron atoms, and oxidative stress can spell doom for human neurons shared from Alz Forum

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Blog – How my relationship with University changed

08/04/2021

Morgan Daniel

Are you a perfectionist? In this blog Morgan Daniel shares her difficulties with ‘Perfectionism’ and how a break and new balance has actually improved her work.

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AI spots cell structures that humans can’t

07/04/2021

Nature Careers Blog

Models can predict the location of cell structures from light-microscopy images alone, without the need for harmful fluorescence labelling.

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Profile – Professor Christina Victor

06/04/2021

Dementia Researcher

Veteran of the first London Marathon and Professor of Gerontology researching health & wellbeing in later life, with a specific interest in health inequalities

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Blog – Lead With a Success Story

06/04/2021

Dr Yvonne Couch

r Yvonne Couch from University of Oxford. In her 1st blog we get to know a little more about her background, work and what she has planned for us in the future.