Guest Blog – Alzheimer’s Research UK Scotland Network: Growing Dementia Research in Glasgow
Dr Fiona KerrNew blog from Dr Fiona Kerr, and Dr Lorraine Work sharing news from the recent ARUK Scotland network meeting.
Tag: University of Edinburgh
Guest Blog – Stress and Alzheimer’s disease- what do we know so far?
Sarah GregoryClarissa Giebel updates on her recent trip to Maastricht for her Alzheimer’s Society funded project, and discusses differences in study recruitment.
Guest Blog – We need environments for people with dementia that are tech ready for social connectivity
Joanna SunJoanna Sun from the University of Wollongong discusses her work in her first blog for Dementia Researcher, exploring can care homes fulfil the needs of people living with dementia, their families and staff and how technology is being fully utilised.
Profile – Dr Chris Henstridge
Dementia ResearcherSenior Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Edinburgh (moving to Dundee to start his own lab soon) and researching Synaptic changes in normal ageing and in neurodegenerative disease (and keeping rabbits away from wires)
Profile – Dr Lucy Stirland
Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh working in Epidemiology of multimorbidity, polypharmacy and mental health (including dementia biomarkers and cognitive outcomes). Hoping to outlive her tortoise.
Profile – Katie Gambier-Ross
Non-Stop Sailor and PhD Student at University of Edinburgh researching challenges around people with dementia going out and being at risk of going ‘missing’
Profile – Sarah Gregory
Friend to royalty, based at the University of Edinburgh managing the local coordination of the EPAD and PREVENT studies.
Pushing dementia research through US-UK collaboration
For MRC grants that involve collaborations, almost half (43%) are international. They are running a symposium in Washington D.C to encourage more of this, by joining up UK early career researchers and National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers working in neurodegeneration. But what’s the international incentive? Three researchers with MRC-NIH Partnership Awards share how they hope to benefit. Dr Chi-Hun Kim,…