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Times 2 features READ-OUT participants with declining cognition
20 August 2025
We're pleased to share Anna Maxted's thoughtful feature in The Times, published yesterday: "The dementia patients who could change lives". Her story captures the personal experiences of volunteers participating in the DPUK READ-OUT study, part of the Blood Biomarker Challenge. We're grateful to Beverley Evans and Stephanie Everill for generously sharing their stories with The Times. Their willingness to share their personal experiences helps us in reaching a wider audience to talk about the valuable research we are doing to bring blood biomarkers for dementia into common usage within the NHS.
READ-OUT celebrates a milestone as its 15th clinical site accepts participants for the Blood Biomarker Challenge study
4 August 2025
DPUK's READ-OUT study, part of the Blood Biomarker Challenge, has reached a major milestone with the commissioning of its 15th clinical site to the study. It now has half of its planned 30 sites operational, recruiting participants to the study.
Promising news about a 'next gen' drug and nexus of the a global research network - AAIC25 take-aways
1 August 2025
It may have been 5 long days in Toronto for our DPUK delegation, but AAIC25 has been full of announcements, opportunities and insights. Whether you are in the early stages of your career or a relative veteran in dementia research, there has been plenty to take away and consider. I asked three of our DPUK team about what they are taking away from the conference.
Cost too high, benefit too small. No new drugs on the NHS
23 June 2025
The NHS will not be offering patients two new drugs that slow progression of Alzheimer’s Disease following a decision by the regulator, NICE. They have assessed that donanemab and lecanemab provide only a small benefit which does not justify the high cost to the health service.
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.