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RAD ARUK Fellowship

Supporting early career dementia researchers in the UK

In collaboration with Alzheimer’s Research UK, the Race Against Dementia Fellowships enable outstanding early career researchers to pursue innovative solutions to the big questions in dementia research. The scheme has been running since 2019.

Grants of up to £500,000 are available for a duration of up to five years, rather than the usual three-year fellowships often offered to early career researchers. RAD believes that a longer fellowship creates space for scientists to explore more innovative avenues of research without the pressure of needing to demonstrate quick results that would satisfy the next grant application in the third year.

Funding covers essential equipment, travel and research assistance. Collaboration outside the host institution is not only encouraged but are also financially supported. These could be international partnerships or collaborations with commercial partners.

Applications are made through the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

Our RAD ARUK Fellows are:

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Dr Cara Croft

University College London, UK
Exploring how genetic risk factors can contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and whether these genetic pathways could be targeted with future drugs.
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Dr Claire Durrant

University of Edinburgh, UK
Investigating the role of tau in keeping synapses – the connections between brain cells – healthy and how these change in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Dr Christy Hung

University College London/Francis Crick Institute, UK
Investigating the role of autophagy, known as a cellular ‘garbage disposal’ system that removes and recycles damaged material to prevent the build-up of toxic waste within the cells.
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Dr Emily Lane-Hill

University of Warwick, UK
Investigating how clumps of tau inside neurons can alter their function and how they communicate with other neurons, including the mechanisms behind these changes.
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Dr Maura Malpetti

University of Cambridge, UK
Understanding the role of inflammation in dementia and symptom progression by testing special brain scans and blood tests to measure and predict the illness.
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Dr Aitana Sogorb-Esteve

University College London, UK
Investigating what goes wrong in the connections between brain cells (synapses) by studying the proteins that are found within them.
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Dr Wioleta Zelek

Cardiff University, UK
Testing the idea that overactivity in a protein complex called MAC and the inflammation it causes is an important driver of Alzheimer’s disease, and developing drugs capable of entering the brain that can stop MAC-driven brain inflammation.

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