Four takes on observing the ARUK grant review board – Take Two by Dr Hannah Scott
Dementia ResearcherThis is the second of three guest blogs from Early Career Researchers who observed the recent ARUK Grant Review Board
Tag: Cardiff University
Guest Blog – Mental capacity & consent in dementia research
victoria.shepherdBlog by Victoria Shepherd from Cardiff University discussing dementia research and the exclusion of people with cognitive impairment
Microglia a double edged sword: Neuroinflammation and new routes for drug discovery
In this Webinar, Byron introduces the concept of MBI, and presents his recent research into prevalence and cognitive correlates in healthy older adults and introduce new findings on genetic associations.
My Research – involving people in research who lack capacity to consent
I am a researcher in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. My background is in nursing, but I have been an applied health researcher for the past 5 years, working in clinical trials and other types of studies, in different populations and settings, but more recently in care homes. I recently led a study…
Podcast – AAIC 2019 Day Four
All the news from Day Four (Final Podcast) of this years Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Los Angeles. Adam Smith talks with Claire Lancaster, James Pickett and Emily Maquire.
Podcast – Using ‘Join Dementia Research’
Adam Smith talks with Clare Shaw, Victoria Shepherd and Ann-Marie Greenaway about how Join Dementia Research helped them with study participant recruitment, and how it could help you.
Profile – Dr Hannah Scott
Research Associate at Cardiff University and, Humming Bird, investigating the effects of Alzheimer’s disease risk variants in non-coding regions of the genome on microglial cells
Profile – Dr Tom Phillips
Research Associate at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University, investigating the role of microglia in dementia. Not at all inspired by Dr Doolittle…
Profile – Victoria Shepherd
Nurse, Blue Peter Badge holder and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at Cardiff University
Profile profile – Dr Emily Maguire
Jigsaw loving Research Associate working at Cardiff University using stem cell-derived microglia to study Alzheimer’s disease
Webinar Catch-up – Microglia a double edged sword: Neuroinflammation and new routes for drug discovery by Dr Tom Phillips
In this webinar, first broadcast on Wednesday 20th May 2020 – Dr Tom Phillips, Research Associate for the UKDRI at Cardiff University talks about microglia’s role in dementia, how that role moves between protection and damaging and how new genetic findings point to new therapies.