RESEARCH PROJECTS

Cardiovascular mechanisms linked to cerebral amyloid β deposition and cognitive decline: A substudy of INSIGHT 46

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Completed
Duration: 02 years 07 months

Cerebrovascular and inflamm-ageing link to neurodegeneration and dementia

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Complement in Alzheimer’s disease: from gene discovery to mechanisms and better drugs

Contracted centre: University of Cardiff
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Computational modelling for understanding mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease progression

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 03 years 11 months

Developing new ways to study and test treatments for small vessel disease in vascular dementia

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Completed
Duration: 04 years 11 months

Developing the African Turquoise killifish (N. furzeri) as a model for Alzheimer’s Disease

Contracted centre: University of Bath
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 11 months

Development of a 3D model of the cortex for investigation of neurodegenerative diseases

Contracted centre: Aston University
Status: Active
Duration: 04 years 04 months

Do astrocytes store more fat when our brain gets older: a new target for dementia?

Contracted centre: University of Nottingham
Status: Completed
Duration: 00 years 01 months

Does brain trauma cause premature ageing of the nervous system?

Contracted centre: University of Liverpool
Status: Active
Duration: 02 years 11 months

Enhancing cognition through the menopausal transition in at-risk ‘APOE4’ carriers by fatty acid and hormonal modulation.

Contracted centre: University of East Anglia
Status: Active
Duration: 02 years 11 months

Epigenetic regulation of environmental and genetic risk in neurodegenerative disease

Contracted centre: Imperial College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Exploring the role of epigenetic changes in Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: University of Exeter
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Genetic mechanisms underlying tauopathies

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Glial-neuronal homeostatic mechanisms with amyloid pathology

Contracted centre: Imperial College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Human stem cell models of Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: University of Cambridge
Status: Completed
Duration: 05 years 11 months

Identifying Disease Mechanisms Caused by Endocytic Genes in Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Contracted centre: Cardiff University
Status: Active
Duration: 02 years 11 months

Inducing age-related changes in microglia as a model for Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: University of Bath
Status: Completed
Duration: 03 years 09 months

Investigating the cellular reaction to amyloid beta and Tau

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Investigating the role of tau in dementia using patient-derived cell models: distinct mechanisms or common endpoint?

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Completed
Duration: 03 years 11 months

Local interactions between tau and synapses in dementia

Contracted centre: University of Bristol
Status: Completed
Duration: 00 years 01 months

Micro-circuit homeostasis in early Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: Imperial College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Mining a common food compound, Epicatechin, for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment

Contracted centre: University of Bath
Status: Completed
Duration: 02 years 10 months

Modelling dementia progression based on machine learning and simulations

Contracted centre: Newcastle University
Status: Active
Duration: 02 years 11 months

Multi-task Learning for Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression

Contracted centre: University of Sheffield
Status: Active
Duration: 03 years 05 months

Single molecule nucleocytoplasmic transport dynamics in FTD/ALS

Contracted centre: King's College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Small vessel disease and vascular contributions to neurodegeneration and dementia

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Structure-function relationship in neurodegeneration

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Synaptic repair mechanisms for the diseased brain

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

The molecular causes and consequences of tauopathy in Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

The Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Post-Stroke Vascular Dysfunction

Contracted centre: University of Oxford
Status: Active
Duration: 02 years 11 months

The role of inherited and acquired mitochondrial DNA mutations in Dementia with Lewy Bodies.

Contracted centre: Newcastle University
Status: Completed
Duration: 01 years 04 months

The role of sleep in protecting against amyloid and glial pathology in dementia

Contracted centre: UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial College London
Status: Active
Duration: 83 years 03 months

The role of tau in synapse survival and its relevance to Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

The role of tau in synapse survival and its relevance to Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: University of Edinburgh
Status: Active
Duration: 04 years 11 months

Towards an in vivo functional dissection of the role of microglia and macrophages in Alzheimer’s disease aetiology

Contracted centre: University of Cardiff
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Understanding the effects of the diabetes type 2 drug Metformin on models of Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 03 years 00 months

Understanding the molecular basis of tau aggregation and spreading

Contracted centre: University of Cambridge
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Understanding the role of neurodegenerative disease risk genes in the ageing nervous system

Contracted centre: University of Cardiff
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

Unravelling the molecular basis of the association of genetic variation in the clusterin gene with risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Contracted centre: Cardiff University School of Medicine
Status: Active
Duration: 02 years 11 months

Using graph networks to identify microbiome-based therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 04 years 00 months

Using stem cells to model protein quality control dysfunction in dementia

Contracted centre: Cardiff University
Status: Active
Duration: 00 years 00 months

What does the human face tell the human brain?

Contracted centre: University College London
Status: Active
Duration: 04 years 03 months