June 29, 2009

Government summit on dementia research

Speakers:
Prof Julie Williams, Chief Scientific Adviser, Alzheimer’s Research Trust
Prof John Hardy, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Prof Clive Ballard, Director of Research, Alzheimer’s Society
Prof Nick Fox, Institute of Neurology, University College London

The UK’s two leading dementia charities, the Alzheimer’s Research Trust and Alzheimer’s Society, are releasing a joint statement urging the government to use this influential summit to draw-up a plan that will put the UK in a leading position to defeat dementia. To coincide with this, the SMC invited four of the UK’s leading dementia scientists taking part in the summit to brief journalists on the UK’s strengths and weaknesses in dementia research, and their views on what the government should change.