Dementia research

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Brain networks and dementia - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Andrew Randall	Professor in Applied Neurophysiology	Neurophysiology, electrophysiology, cellular imaging, Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr Jonathan Brown	Senior Lecturer	Neurophysiology, Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, schizophrenia, Synaptic and intrinsic neurophysiology.
Dr Mick Craig	Research Fellow	Neural circuit mapping, inhibitory interneurons, neuronal oscillations, optogenetics, chemogenetics, electrophysiology, behaviour, Alzheimer’s disease and psychiatric illness

Genomics of dementia - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Jonathan Mill	Professor of Epigenetics	Genomics, epigenetics, gene function, animal models, brain, transcription, bioinformatics
Dr Katie Lunnon	Associate Professor in Epigenetics	Genomics, epigenetics, gene function, animal models, brain, transcription, bioinformatics
Dr Byron Creese	Senior Research Fellow	Genomics, genome-wide data analysis, neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia
Dr Eilis Hannon	Research Fellow	Genomics, psychiatric disorders, bioinformatics
Dr Rebecca Smith	Research Fellow	Epigenetics, Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr Ehsan Pishva	Research Fellow	Epigenetics, stress, depression, Alzheimer’s Disease

Dementia care and support - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Clive Ballard	Professor of Age-Related Diseases	Dementia, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials
Professor Linda Clare	Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia	Ageing, cognitive health, living well with dementia, wellbeing, age-related disability, rehabilitation, dementia, dementia care
Dr Jo Thompson Coon	Associate Professor in Evidence Synthesis	Evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, care homes, ageing population
Dr Anne Corbett	Senior Lecturer in Dementia Research	Dementia, dementia reduction, drug discovery, clinical trials, care home research, clinical trial delivery, online research, translational research, patient and public involvement
Professor Chris Fox	Professor of Clinical Psychiatry	Dementia, dementia prevention, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials, artificial intelligence, care home research
Dr Ruth Garside	Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis	Evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, care homes, ageing population
Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer	Senior Lecturer (Ageing & Family Care)	Wellbeing of older adults and family carers, resilience, suicide and homicide risk family carers in dementia, non-pharmalogical approaches to dementia care, social media
Professor Rose McCabe	Professor of Clinical Communication	Professional-patient communication, psychosis, depression, dementia
Dr Sharon Savage	Lecturer in Ageing and Dementia	Diagnosis, cognitive interventions, Semantic Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Transient Epileptic Amnesia, Motor Neurone Disease, Methodological quality in rehabilitation studies
Joao Correa Delgado	Alzheimer’s Society Research Fellow	Alzheimer's, dementia
Dr Vicki Goodwin MBE	Senior Research Fellow	Physiotherapy, rehabilitation, fall prevention, older people, Parkinson’s, dementia

Drug development and clinical trials - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Clive Ballard	Professor of Age-Related Diseases	Dementia, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials.
Professor Marios Politis	Professor of Neurology	Neurology, neuroimaging, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, clinical trials
Professor Roger Mills	Professorial Advisor	Drug Development, Clinical Trial Design
Professor Jeffery Cummings	Professorial Advisor	Neurology, dementia, clinical trials, Parkinson’s disease
Professor Zahinoor Ismail	Professor of Old Age Psychiatry	Mild Behavioural Impairment, dementia, clinical trials
Dr Anne Corbett	Senior Lecturer in Dementia Research	Dementia, dementia reduction, drug discovery, clinical trials, care home research, clinical trial delivery, online research, translational research, patient and public involvement
Helen Brooker	Senior Research Fellow	Ageing, cognitive function, automated testing, clinical trials
Professor Joe Butchart	Honorary Associate Professor	Geriatric medicine, dementia, clinical trials
Professor Ray Sheridan	Honorary Associate Professor	Geriatric medicine, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, clinical trials
Professor Chris Fox	Professor of Clinical Psychiatry	Dementia, dementia prevention, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials, artificial intelligence, care home research

Technology - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Clive Ballard	Professor of Age-Related Diseases	Dementia, dementia prevention, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials
Dr Anne Corbett	Senior Lecturer in Dementia Research	Dementia, dementia reduction, drug discovery, clinical trials, care home research, clinical trial delivery, online research, translational research, patient and public involvement
Professor Lora Fleming	Director of the European Centre for Environment and Human Health and Chair of Oceans, Epidemiology and Human Health	Epidemiology, environment, human health
Dr Katie Lunnon	Associate Professor in Epigenetics	Genomics, epigenetics, gene function, animal models, brain, transcription, bioinformatics
Professor Jonathan Mill	Professor of Epigenetics	Genomics, epigenetics, gene function, animal models, brain, transcription, bioinformatics
Dr David Llewellyn	Senior Research Fellow	Epidemiology, artificial intelligence, dementia diagnosis
Professor Andrew Randall	Professor in Applied Neurophysiology	Neurophysiology, electrophysiology, cellular imaging, Alzheimer’s Disease
Professor Nick Stone	Head of Physics and Astronomy	Biomedical imaging, biosensing, spectroscopic imaging, diagnostics
Dr Tim Taylor	Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Public Health Economics (E&R)	Environmental and public health economics
Dr Mathew White	Senior Lecturer	Natural environments, human health, wellbeing
Professor Paul Winyard	Professor of Experimental Medicine	Analytical biochemistry, proteomics, oxidative and nitrative stress, inflammation, diagnostics and experimental therapeutic
Professor Frank Vollmer	Professor of Biophysics	Analytical single-molecule methods, protein misfolding, Dementia, health-care on a chip, optical biosensing, protein analysis
Dr Steffen Scholpp	Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology	Wnt signalling, synaptogenesis, gene function, animal models, high- and super resolution microscopy, Alzheimer’s Disease
Professor Chris Fox	Professor of Clinical Psychiatry	Dementia, dementia prevention, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials, artificial intelligence, care home research

PROTECT - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Dr Anne Corbett	Chief Investigator	Dementia, dementia reduction, drug discovery, clinical trials, care home research, clinical trial delivery, online research, translational research, patient and public involvement
Professor Clive Ballard	Co-investigator and Clinical Lead	Dementia, antipsychotic medications, non-pharmacological interventions, cognitive health, neuropsychiatric symptoms, dementia care, clinical trials
Dr Byron Creese	Co-investigator and Genetics Lead	Dementia, neurodegenerative disease, neuropsychiatric symptoms, genomics
Helen Brooker	Co-investigator and Cognitive Testing Lead	Dementia, cognitive health, ageing, digital research, cognitive testing