Updates
Prof Vanessa Raymont is the new Director of DPUK
30 June 2026
Dementias Platform UK is delighted to announce that Prof Vanessa Raymont is taking over as its Director.
Dementias Platform UK continues its support to researchers
30 June 2026
After more than a decade creating and developing powerful research resources, DPUK is continuing its mission to support researchers and their scientific work.
How is Dementias Platform UK enhancing research into dementia?
Watch this introductory video about Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) and how it is bringing together excellent scientific minds and leaders in the pharmaceutical industry to find new ways of detecting, treating and preventing dementia.
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Science feature
The Dementias Platform UK PET/MR Harmonisation and Test-Retest Study
In this blog, Dr Pawel Markiewicz who leads the DPUK Imaging Network, explains a harmonisation and test/retest study which has been completed across our Imaging Network on PET and MR scans.
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.