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Unprecedented access to cohort data
The Data Portal offers scientists around the world a secure online environment to work with some of the richest cohort data optimised for dementia research.
Participants make DPUK datathons what they are
68 researchers from a whole range of backgrounds came together in the latest two DPUK datathons. This diversity – in attendees, skills and research backgrounds – is the aspect that datathoners consistently report they like the most.
Find out moreFive years of enabling dementia research
The vision of DPUK Director, Prof John Gallacher, five years ago was to bring the many strands of dementia research together ad develop major technological networks and cross-disciplinary expert collaborations that could transform how scientists are able detect and treat early dementia.
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Latest publications, techniques and resources for dementia research.
What's new
Study shows value of big data in highlighting effects of childhood adversity
21 July 2020
New research has provided further evidence of the link between childhood emotional abuse and changes in the structure of the brain, highlighting the power of big data to shed light on how our early experiences affect us in later life.
DPUK response to the government Roadmap on research and development
2 July 2020
Comment by Professor John Gallacher, Director of Dementias Platform UK