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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£1.2 million to roll-out dementia care home programme

07/10/2020

Dementia Researcher

New government funding to help researchers develop an innovative online programme to improve and personalise care for people with dementia in care homes

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Blog – Introducing a regular series from Dr Emily Oliver

06/10/2020

Dr Emily Jones

Dr Emily Oliver. completed her clinical doctorate in dementia, and is now a Consultant Admiral Nurse. Emily will be blogging for us every month, sharing updates about dementia and dementia care, whilst providing snippets into her own personal and professional life.

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Podcast – Using Artificial Intelligence & data to fight dementia

05/10/2020

Dementia Researcher

Professor Bart De Strooper & Professor David Llewellyn discuss a new UKDRI and DEMON Network partnership & what Artificial Intelligence and Data for dementia

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Science is getting harder to read

02/10/2020

Nature Careers Blog

From obscure acronyms to unnecessary jargon, research papers are increasingly impenetrable, even for scientists, according to a Dalmeet Singh Chawla

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Blog – Talking about diversity in dementia research

30/09/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Anna Volkmer discusses the lack of diversity within her research and clinical communities, and how this is detrimental to patients.

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Why scientific societies should involve more ECRs

28/09/2020

eLife

Article from eLife looks at the level of influence ECRs have on scientific societies, and provides guidelines on how societies can successfully include ECRs

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Profile – Professor Bart De Strooper

28/09/2020

Dementia Researcher

Former National Director, UK Dementia Research Institute focussed on Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease.

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Introducing the Coarse-Grained Plaque—A New Type of Amyloid

28/09/2020

Alz Forum

You’d think that by now we would know all about what amyloid plaques look like? Well, no. Researchers just characterized what they believe to be a distinct type

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Dr Sam Moxon, University of Birmingham

24/09/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Sam Moxon is a University of Birmingham Research Fellow using biomaterials and 3D bioprinting to model blood vessels and advance dementia research.

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Guest Blog – More research should take place in areas with most disease

21/09/2020

Adam Smith

Research shows research participation is on the increase, however health research does not take place in areas where the burden of disease is highest

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Blog – World Alzheimer’s Day Challenge

21/09/2020

Dementia Researcher

Professor Martin Rossor, highlights the importance of building research capacity and inspiring the next generation of researchers on World Alzheimer’s Day

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Blog – World Alzheimer’s Day message for Dementia Researchers

21/09/2020

Adam Smith

Adam Smith blogs to share news from Alzheimer’s Disease International, and to thank researchers for all they do on World Alzheimer’s Day.