UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: The future of dementia research

World Alzheimer’s Month: The future of dementia research

What if we could watch dementia unfold in a dish, and stop it before it starts? To mark Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, Professor Selina Wray explores how cutting-edge stem cell models are helping us understand the earliest changes in the brain that lead to Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Drawing on her pioneering work at UCL, she will reveal how patient-derived neurons are unlocking new insights into disease mechanisms and paving the way for personalised treatments. Professor Wray will also look to the future of dementia research and speak to the power of big data, AI and international collaborations in driving innovation and helping us to tackle the global challenge of dementia.

Speaker: Professor Selina Wray, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Chair: Professor Fiona Ducotterd, Chief Scientific Officer, Alzheimer’s Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute.