Alzheimer's Disease: Research

(asked on 19th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to support research into treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th January 2024

The Department funds dementia research via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and is taking a number of steps to support research into treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. On 14 August 2022, the former Prime Minister publicly launched the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission, along with £95 million of Government funding, to speed up the development of new treatments. Alongside the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission, the NIHR is investing in the Dementia Translational Research Collaboration which seeks to significantly expand the United Kingdom’s early phase clinical trial capabilities in dementia to speed up the development of new treatments for dementia, including for Alzheimer’s disease.

The NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) received nearly £39 million of NIHR funding for dementia and neurodegeneration research between 2022 and 2027 with six of the NIHR BRCs containing a dedicated dementia or neurodegeneration research theme. The BRCs include specialties in Alzheimer’s disease. The BRCs are brought together by the NIHR Dementia Translational Research Collaboration to maximise collaboration between centres and accelerate the translation of discoveries to improve the diagnosis and treatment of dementia into clinical practice.

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