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A snapshot of 2024
19 December 2024
Facts speak for themselves. So, I am letting them speak more eloquently than I can at the end of another fruitful and satisfying year for DPUK and its amazing team.
Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Pilot Project launched at Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility
29 November 2024
A new service development project, run by Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) supported under a Collaborative Working Agreement by Eli Lilly and Company and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been launched at the Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF).
DPUK Research Reflections
7 November 2024
It's been ten years since Dementias Platform UK first launched back in the autumn of 2014. We hear from some of those who were there when it all started as they give their assessment of what's been accomplished.
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The DPUK Data Portal gives researchers rapid, secure access to millions of health research records.
Our Trials Delivery Framework matches public volunteers to the right dementia studies.
Our Experimental Medicine Incubator accelerates and de-risks the development of new treatments.
Featured research: Can our genes predict our likelihood of developing dementia?
A project led by researchers at Cardiff University is analysing data in the DPUK Data Portal to predict genetic risk of dementia, focusing on genes related to the brain's immune system.
Research Update
Read researcher Elena Herrero's blog about the work going on at our IMPRINT study which is exploring immunological biomarkers in early and prodromal stages of Lewy Body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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