Beating dementia with the Breakthrough Prize

The new UCL Dementia Research Institute will lead efforts to find effective treatments and improve the lives of those with dementia.

The institute will bring together researchers from across UCL and UCLH to lead national and international efforts to find effective treatments and improve the lives of those with dementia.  It was generously supported with part of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences awarded to Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) in November 2015 for his pioneering research into the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia and Parkinson’s disease.

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences honours ‘transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life’. This was the first time that the prize was awarded to a UK researcher, reflecting UCL’s world-leading position in dementia research.

" It is a great honour to be awarded the prize for our work dissecting the causes of Alzheimer and Parkinson’s diseases. At UCL – with the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery Institute, the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre and the fantastic clinical team that we have at the Institute of Neurology – I feel we can beat these diseases.” Professor John Hardy

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