A leading dementia research charity based in Cambridge is awarding £4.3 million to new research projects.
The latest batch of 37 new schemes backed by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust includes pioneering work on diagnosis using brain scans and unravelling the genetics of the disease.
Rebecca Wood, chief executive, said: ‘Research is the only answer to dementia, a condition that affects over 6,000 people in Cambridgeshire, and 820,000 people in the UK today.
‘Our record investment this year launches our ambitious plan to double our research spending over 5 years’.
Prof Julie Williams, chief scientific adviser to the trust said: ‘This record investment is crucial to the advancement of dementia research. The Alzheimer’s Research Trust’s work is pioneering new approaches and techniques, testing novel ideas and opening doors to fresh directions in research’.