Principal Investigators


Professor Andy Randall

Institution


University of Exeter

Contact information of lead PI


Country


United Kingdom

Title of project or programme


Alzheimer's Society Doctoral Training Centre in Dementia Research at the University of Exeter

Source of funding information


Alzheimer's Society

Total sum awarded (Euro)


€ 600,106

Start date of award


01/10/2015

Total duration of award in years


4.0

The project/programme is most relevant to:


Alzheimer's disease & other dementias

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Research Abstract


This bid comes from the University of Exeter where a recent programme of strategically-directed recruitment has
produced a major expansion in our portfolio of biomedical dementia research. With guaranteed match funding
from the University we are able to double the Alzheimer’s Society provision of 4 training places and will thus
recruit 8 high quality students including one clinical training fellow. The trainees will enter a cohesive programme
designed to deliver the next generation of dementia researchers. The DTC’s theme is “The translational
neurobiology of failing networks in dementia”. The 8 research projects lie predominantly at the translational end
of the biomedical research spectrum and are all described in the application. We believe multidisciplinary
research is essential in the fight to defeat disease; for this reason each project has a multidisciplinary supervisory
team comprised from our applicant pool of clinicians, psychologists, mathematicians, neurophysiologists,
geneticists and stem cell biologists. The DTC training programme aims to instil a strong cohort ethos within both
the student body and faculty members. Plans to facilitate this goal are described. Also we have put a strong
steering committee in place to oversee the delivery of the DTC this is comprised of senior faculty and external
members.

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