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Access requests reach record high for Data Portal AND numbers double in last 5 years
27 October 2025
The growth in the number of studies using the DPUK Data Portal continues to grow. With two months of 2025 remaining, we have exceeded last year’s record number of access applications.
READ-OUT study is accelerating innovation in digital cognitive assessments for dementia
24 October 2025
DPUK is delighted to have received funding from Innovate UK through the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme to add a digital dimension to its READ-OUT study. Dementia is the UK's biggest killer and around a million people in the UK have a form of the disease. 1 in 3 of them never get a formal diagnosis. Early and accurate diagnosis is essential to identify those who may benefit from new treatments that can slow down Alzheimer’s disease.
READ-OUT celebrates a milestone as its 19th clinical site accepts participants for the Blood Biomarker Challenge study
8 October 2025
DPUK's READ-OUT study, part of the Blood Biomarker Challenge, has reached a major milestone with the commissioning of its 19th clinical site to the study. It now has half of its planned 30 sites operational, recruiting participants to the study.
Booking open for GREAT MINDS LIVE
9 September 2025
The latest in our long-running series of popular events for Great Minds members and others interested in dementia is taking place in Oxford on 16th October.
How is Dementias Platform UK enhancing research into dementia?
Watch this introductory video about Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) and how it is bringing together the best scientific minds and global leaders in the pharmaceutical industry to find new ways of detecting, treating and preventing dementia.
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Fuel for thought
We often discuss how eating a healthy diet is good for our physical health – less often talked about is how eating a varied and nutritious diet is also important for the health of our brains. Having gone many years not knowing this myself, I’ve now become passionate about sharing this message as widely as I can. I think food is unique in that it has the potential to either support or hinder our brains. At its simplest, we all need to eat – but this provides us with the opportunity to support our brain health many times over through our food choices.
The DPUK Data Portal gives researchers rapid, secure access to multimodal datasets and millions of health research records.
Our Trials Delivery Framework matches public volunteers to the right dementia studies and has over 80 clinical sites across the UK.
DPUK's Experimental Medicine Incubator accelerates and de-risks the development of new treatments for dementia.
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Would you like to increase the international visibility of your data? Try our Data Portal.
Do you need well-characterised volunteers for your early-phase trial? Use our Trials Delivery Framework.
Is there a mechanism you would like to investigate? Explore our Experimental Medicine Incubator.