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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Four principles for practising and evaluating co-production

28/01/2020

LSE Impact Blog

A new working definition of co-produced research and suggest how different elements of successfully co-produced knowledge can be understood and evaluated.

Careers, Partner Blogs

Orderly desk, orderly mind

23/01/2020

Nature Careers Blog

A tidy desk, a clear mind: discover how one researcher’s compulsive order fuels creative thinking and helps their lab tackle unexpected research themes.

Science

Human and Mouse Microglia React Differently to Amyloid

23/01/2020

Alz Forum

Human and mouse brains respond differently to amyloid. A new study reveals why transgenic mice may fall short in modelling Alzheimer’s disease.

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Profile – Dr Emily Maguire

23/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Jigsaw loving Research Associate working in the UKDRI at Cardiff University using stem cell-derived microglia to study Alzheimer’s disease

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Blog – VOICEland: A Journey Through PPI in Dementia Research

21/01/2020

Ester Bellavia

PhD researcher Ester Bellavia shares how storytelling helped her explore PPI in dementia research, navigating the ‘Research Involvement Ocean’ to VOICEland.

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Podcast – Molecular Basis of Alzheimer’s Disease

20/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Professor Louise Serpell and Dr Karen Marshall join us on the Dementia Researcher Podcast to explore amyloid fibrils, protein misfolding, and drug development in Alzheimer’s.

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Profile – Dr Karen Marshall, University of Sussex

18/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Karen Marshall, Research Scientist at the University of Sussex exploring how protein aggregates impact endosomal-lysosomal pathway & mitochondrial function

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Profile – Professor Louise Serpell, University of Sussex

18/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Louise Serpell, Emeritas Professor of Biochemistry & Director of Sussex Neuroscience at University of Sussex researching proteins & how they fold and misfold

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Accelerating Progress: ARUK’s Dementia Moonshot Report

17/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Alzheimer’s Research UK outlines key priorities to deliver the Dementia Moonshot and accelerate progress towards life-changing treatments in a new report.

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Blog – Cognitive Impairment at the foot of Kilimanjaro

15/01/2020

Dr Iago Rego García

Dr Iago Rego García interviews Dr Judith Boshe, the sole psychiatrist at KCMC in Tanzania, on diagnosing dementia in low-resource settings.

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Profile – Dr Iago Rego García

15/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Iago Rego García is a Medical doctor specialising Neurology, with an interest in Public Health, running a community-based health program in rural Tanzania.

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Blog – One small DPUK grant can kick-start a big career

15/01/2020

Dementia Researcher

Luke Whiley tells the story of how a relatively small grant has taken him far in his career in dementia research – to the other side of the world in fact!