Alzheimer's Research UK Drug Discovery
Dementia Researcher
11/18/19
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In this podcast we welcome academics and industry to discuss the Dementia Consortium and drug discovery, from the basics of target validation to the question you always wanted to ask big pharma - what is their motivation for investing! The panel is made up of Dr Declan Jones and Dr John Isaac both from Johnson & Johnson, one of the seven industry partners of the Dementia Consortium, Professor Paul Whiting, the CSO at the Drug Discovery Institute at UCL and James Connell the Research Manager at Alzheimer's Research UK who coordinates the Dementia Consortium. The Dementia Consortium is a private-charity partnership between Alzheimer’s Research UK, Evotec and the pharmaceutical companies Abbvie, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Eisai, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly and MSD. The Consortium provides drug discovery resources, project management, industry expertise and tools as well as full funding support for projects. It can support small molecule or antibody-based strategies and aims to generate tools to achieve preclinical target validation. The ultimate goal is to progress successful projects from laboratories towards the clinic. You can find out more about the Dementia Consortium here, including details of their funding programmes throughout the year: https://www.dementiaconsortium.org/ You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. A transcript of this podcast is also available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-alzheimers-research-uk-drug-discovery Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. _________________________ If you would like to share your own experiences or discuss your research in a blog or on a podcast, drop us a line to adam.smith@nihr.ac.uk or find us on twitter @dem_researcher _________________________ Join Dementia Research a topic of a previous podcast has been selected as a Top 100 innovation created by University College London. The overall winner will be decided by a public vote. It would be great if you could show your support by voting for them by hitting the thumbs up on this page - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/join-dementia-research-getting-public-involved Thank you
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Quality of Life After a Dementia Diagnosis
November 4, 2019
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This week's podcast was recorded at the Centre for Dementia Studies at the University of Sussex. Megan O'Hare is joined by Dr Ben Hicks and Dr Laura Hughes to discuss broadly the themes of inequalities in dementia care and quality of life and specifically look at the DeterMIND programme. Evidence has emerged of major inequalities in care for dementia, driven by factors including ethnicity, whether your care is self-funded or paid for by local authorities and whether you are diagnosed earlier or later. DeterMIND is designed to address critical, fundamental and as yet unanswered questions about inequalities, outcomes and costs following diagnosis with dementia. These answers are needed to improve the quality of care and therefore the quality of life. Join the podcast to hear an interesting discussion on the benefits and perceived downsides of an early diagnosis, results from Ben's PhD work on how different populations manage a clinical diagnosis and the way care homes can enhance the quality of life for people with dementia. You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. A transcript of this podcast is also available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-quality-of-life-after-a-dementia-diagnosis/ Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. _________________________ If you would like to share your own experiences or discuss your research in a blog or on a podcast, drop us a line to adam.smith@nihr.ac.uk or find us on twitter @dem_researcher _________________________ Join Dementia Research a topic of a previous podcast has been selected as a Top 100 innovation created by University College London. The overall winner will be decided by a public vote. It would be great if you could show your support by voting for them by hitting the thumbs up on this page - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/join-dementia-research-getting-public-involved Thank you
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Neighbourhoods, dementia & co-creation to put research into action
December 2, 2019
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This week Adam Smith is at the University of Manchester to talk with a research team who over the last 5-years has been working collaboratively with people living with dementia and family carers on a study focusing on Neighbourhoods and Dementia. This weeks panel has Dr Sarah Campbell a Research Associate at the Manchester University, Professor Andrew Clark from the University of Salford and expert through experience Maria Walsh as Co-researcher and Study Adviser. In this podcast we discuss how researchers and study participants worked together to find innovative and meaningful ways to disseminate the findings from their research. Ensuring that what they learnt really was put into practice and shared with those who would benefit, and how co-production took them down the path of zines. PS you can find the zines mentioned in the podcast here: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/neighbourhoods-and-dementia/work-programme-4/ The designer who produced the amazing graphics for this study has also written a blog for us, which you will find on our website. There you will also find profiled on all of our panellists and a transcript of this audio recording. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk _________________________________ About the study: The Neighbourhoods and Dementia study was funded in the UK under the first Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia in 2012. The eight work programmes were framed around people, spaces and places and had the following overarching aims: 1. To address the meanings, experiences, and structure of neighbourhoods for people living with dementia, their care partners and other in-contact-groups and individuals. 2. To learn from the process and praxis of making people living with dementia and their care partners core to the research agenda. 3. To encourage innovative technological advances in dementia studies and in the development of a neighbourhood model of dementia. 4. To build capacity within the research community and the networks of people living with dementia and their care partners. 5. To develop the evidence base, methods and measures for understanding the significance of neighbourhoods for people living with dementia and their care partners. 6. To create, test and evaluate interventions that are pertinent to a neighbourhood model of dementia. You can find out about this study and all the outcomes on their website at: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/neighbourhoods-and-dementia/?ID=3314
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