Dementia Research Group

Doctoral Training Centre

Our  Alzheimers Society Doctoral Training Centre (see the press release under "NEWS")  will support a total of eight PhD students over five years to research complementary aspects of understanding the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s disease with life span in the areas of psychology and biochemistry/neuroscience. The DTC plans, in outline, are shown below.

News

  • Robert Templaar (Alzheimer's society DTC Undergraduate internship student) won first prize at the Sussex University Junior research associate posters on October 5th.
  • DTC students participated in the "BrightSparks" event for the Brighton Science Festival on Feb 11th 
  • The DTC students will be talking to the public about their research at the Alzheimer's society Memory walk on Sept 30th in  Hove

 

Plans for DTC Sussex

 Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year 6Year 7Year 8 
4 PhD                                                                                                                 Recruited for 2015 (Luca, Lucas, Rebecca and Jo)
1 PhD                 (Sussex Match Funded) (Orla)
1 PhD                 (Sussex Match Funded) (Francesco)
2 PhD                 (School Match Funded) 
4 UG Internships                 Started Summer 2015
2 UG Internships                 Started Summer 2016
                   

 

Engagement with public and research communities

PhD students to visit Memory Clinics
(Year 1)

ARUK South/AS mini symposium Sussex May 10th
Apolipoprotein E in AD

Public Open Days 
Sussex 
2016 and 2018

Scientific Symposium
2018

Sussex Partnership trust Older People's Mental Health annual Workshop

Annual Alzheimer's Society Conference

Annual ARUK Research Conference
Blog post on ARUK Conference

Annual Brighton Science Festival
Cafe Scientifique
Nerdnite
Big Bang Fair

 

Updates 

Summer internships:

Summer 2015 : four areas of AD research (2 Psychology and 2 Life Sciences)
Supervised by:Sarah King, Louise Serpell, Jenny Rusted and George Kemenes

Summer 2016 :Two Alzheimer's disease/Sussex JRAs Summer 2016 were allocated to Mark Bagley and Sarah King. Further JRAs in the Alzheimer's research areas were awarded by Wellcome Trust (John Atack), Sussex University (Louise Serpell and Chris Bird)

 

Upcoming events

 

 

Previous events

 

Mini Symposium  on ApoE in Health and Alzheimer's disease,

University of Sussex, 10th May 2016

Mini-symposium- Scientist

 

The mini-symposium was attended by 55 people and the event was described in the media on Meridian  news on ITV and BBC radio south. The symposium was attended by scientists, students and members of the public who were provided with hands on activities demonstrating Alzheimer's research by the students. Click here for the article about the APOE Symposium on Prof Jenny Rusted's Blog.