There are currently estimated to be 982,000 people with dementia in the UK and this is expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2040. This is a major public health challenge and there is pressing need for effective preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic solutions.
In this seminar, two experts will talk about their research programmes on advances in the causes and treatments of dementia and will also be taking questions.
Professor Paresh Malhotra is a Head of Neurology in the Department of Brain Sciences and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is National Specialty Lead for Dementia and Neurodegeneration for the NIHR Research Delivery Network. Professor Malhotra will talk about his research on new approaches to Alzheimer’s diagnosis and drug therapy.
Professor Miia Kivipelto holds the Chair of Neuroepidemiology and is Director of the Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit at Imperial. She is also Professor of Clinical Geriatric Epidemiology at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Professor Kivipelto will talk about her research into multidomain approaches (FINGER intervention).