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« Back to Latest newsDPUK collaboration wins HSJ Partnership Award
26 March 2025
Congratulations to everyone in the project team, winners of the HSJ Award for the ‘Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS’. The project was described by the organisers as 'improving accurate, early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease'.
Digital test is a boost to READ-OUT biomarker study into effective ways of spotting dementia sooner
25 March 2025
People could get the right help for the diseases that can cause dementia sooner following the announcement today of a £2 million injection of funding from the government to help spot these earlier.
READ-OUT centres welcome the first volunteer patients for crucial biomarker research
28 January 2025
DPUK's READ-OUT project, part of the Blood Biomarker Challenge, is set to welcome patients to the first of 28 centres across the UK who are participating in the study.
International Data Access
3 October 2024
DPUK is committed to internationalising access to datasets. Professor John Gallacher recently addressed a Summit in Washington DC about the high value of data sharing to advance dementia research.
DPUK says ‘Grounds for optimism’ after ground-breaking lecanemab drug gets a UK license…but it won't be used in the NHS.
22 August 2024
Lecanemab gets a green light, but only limited use for patients in the UK.
Big Data and Trials Delivery: Translation 2024 in a fast-changing world Day 2
19 April 2024
The second day of #Translation2024 began with a personal account of living with mild cognitive impairment before we dived into the complexity of data and AI.
DPUK launches ground-breaking new Imaging Hub
8 February 2023
A new brain imaging hub has been launched by Dementias Platform UK’s Data Portal giving researchers unique access to scans, together with phenotypic and genomic data enabling more complex research analysis into dementia.
Testing for hearing loss could 'reduce Dementia risk' later in life
18 January 2023
Research by Dr. Sarah Bauermeister of Dementias Platform UK at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, into hearing loss and its impacts on the progress of dementia in later life has featured in extensive media coverage of a Brain Health Check-In tool created by Alzheimer's Research UK.