Small awards of up to £40,000 are made to enable researchers to assemble pilot data on which to build larger grant applications to external funding bodies.
The BRC is looking for early stage researchers to pilot different ways of involving patients and the public in basic research as part of a groundbreaking collaborative with 4 research charities.
BRU and BRC supported researchers have demonstrated that dementias previously thought to be ‘language-led’, also extend to areas of the brain related to sound.
A trial using immunotherapy for individuals with psychosis and brain-reactive autoantibodies, in whom encephalitis has been excluded, has opened and is beginning to screen individuals across the UK.
The in2science UK scheme, which will allocate 300 lab placements to school students from disadvantaged backgrounds, is looking for researchers to host A level students this summer.
Dementia Platform UK (DPUK) has launched a new data resource giving researchers free access to a platform with over two million patient records optimised for dementia research.