Help us in the race against dementia

Drug discovery to clinical trial project

Accelerating the discovery of new treatments for dementia

Part of RAD’s International Hub is The Race Against Dementia Drug Discovery to Clinical Trial Project – a joint research partnership between the University of Edinburgh and the Alzheimer Center, Amsterdam. The aim of this project is to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for dementia and to test drug compounds against models of dementia, with a view to tracking promising targets towards clinical trials.

The project supports RAD’s ambition to fund innovative and collaborative international research, bringing together global centres of excellence to accelerate finding a prevention or cure of dementia.

Two RAD Associates, Dr Jort Vijverberg and Dr Bhuvaneish Selvaraj, are supported as part of the Race Against Dementia Drug Discovery to Clinical Trial Project funding. These RAD Associates benefit from the full RAD Fellowship Programme alongside RAD Fellows.

Hear more on the Race Against Dementia Drug Discovery to Clinical Trial Project from RAD’s Scientific Advisors Professor Siddharthan Chandran and Professor Philip Scheltens.

Our RAD Associates working on this project are:

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Dr Bhuvaneish T Slevaraj

University of Edinburgh
Deciphering mechanisms that lead to vulnerability of neurons in neurodegenerative diseases and translating findings to high-throughput drug screening platforms to enable rapid identification of novel therapeutics.
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Dr Everard (Jort) Vijverberg

Alzheimer Center Amsterdam
Developing drug discovery and trials that will dramatically accelerate the time to treat a dementia patient with new drugs.

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