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Project Title: Investigating Homeostatic Plasticity in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Samuel Barnes

Leire Melgosa Ecenarro

Project Title: Functional and molecular signatures of synaptic vulnerability in early Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Samuel Barnes and Dr Johanna Jackson

Salman Fawad

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Charlotte Luff

Project Title: Neurophysiological investigation of brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

David Miao

Project Title: Does the brain clear toxins more efficiently during sleep?

Supervisors: Professor William Wisden and Professor Nicholas Franks

Jiabin Tang

Project Title: Characterisation of Glial & Neuronal Pathology Associated with Aβ Proteins in an Alzheimer’s Disease Model

Supervisor: Prof. Paul Matthews and Prof. Steve Gentleman

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Project Title: Elucidation of metabolism alteration

Supervisor: Professor Zoltan Takats & Professor Paul Matthews

Roxy Zhang

Project Title: Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain disorders using single nucleus ATAC-seq data

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

Xiaowen Zhang

Project Title: Spatially resolved transcriptome profiling in post-mortem human brains of Alzheimer’s disease

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews

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New non-invasive form of deep brain stimulation could provide alternative treatment for brain diseases

Cutting-edge work led by Imperial PI Dr Nir Grossman makes national press

Scientists from the UK Dementia Research Institute centre at Imperial College London featured on ITV News and in national newspapers. Read more on the Imperial website and the UK DRI website.

Imperial PhD student wins award at annual UK DRI conference

Success for Eléonore Schneegans at Connectome 2023 in Brighton

Eléonore was awarded the Computational Reproducibility Prize, with Brian Schilder receiving an honourable mention. Read more on the UK DRI website.

World Alzheimer's Day

The 21st of September was World Alzheimer's Day.

Find out more about how Imperial College London is advancing our knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in this article.

Imperial named UK’s best university

Imperial College London is ranked top of a new league table of UK universities.

Imperial has also been named University of the Year in the league table, published by the Daily Mail, and is praised for its "sustained excellence in all areas” alongside its commitment to social inclusion, including generous bursary support. 

Read full article.

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The UK Dementia Research Institute is a joint £290 million investment from the Medical Research Council (MRC), Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK.

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