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Multiple sclerosis (MS) has more than doubled in recorded prevalence in England from 2000 to 2020, increasing by 6% per year, largely due to improved diagnosis and longer life expectancy, finds a new study by UCL and Imperial College London researchers.

UCL researchers have welcomed the UK Government’s new £2bn investment in quantum technology, which will strengthen and accelerate major national programmes, including the UCL‑hosted Q‑BIOMED, pioneering wearable quantum brain scanners and next‑generation diagnostic tools.

Dementia research at UCL has received a major new investment of £15 million for the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery Institute at UCL.

A research team at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology has identified a previously unknown genetic cause of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)

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Professor Olga Ciccarelli has been appointed as National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator.