Alzheimer’s Society has now launched its 2022/23 research funding schemes offering 10 grants at key stages of a research career. These schemes will support researchers to deliver the biomedical breakthroughs and care innovations that people affected by dementia...
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an MSc at the University of Dundee. The Farnaby group, located in the new University of Dundee Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation, is seeking to use an emerging type of drug modality to provide chemical tools that can help...
Brains contain billions of specialised cells, called neurons, which are the fundamental building blocks of every circuit in the nervous system. The principal purpose of a neuron is to transmit information: when they receive sufficient input from other neurons, they...
ADP-ribosylation is a fundamental posttranslational modification where ADP-ribose is linked on to target proteins by ADP-ribose transferases and removed by the ADP-ribose hydrolases. Emerging data implicate ADP-ribosylation in maintaining the health of the nervous...
This vital PhD at the University of Strathclyde is supervised by Prof Wendy Moncur. It focusses on how people can continue to use their online accounts after a cognitive impairment – for example, a brain injury or the onset of dementia. Online accounts include social...
We are always looking for SDRC members to feature on our website and write a guest blog for the SDRC. You may already be familiar with our blog series, where we welcome contributions from people with an experience of brain health or dementia research. From talking to...
