Interdisciplinary Dementia and Ageing Centre

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Dr Euan Sadler

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Social science approaches and ageing
  • Person centred care
  • Older people living with frailty, dementia, stroke and multimorbidity

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Gabriela Czanner

Professor in Digital Health

Research interests

  • Spatial statistical models for clinical images to help understand diseases
  • Longitudinal and spatio-temporal models for early detection, screening and monitoring of diseases
  • Uncertainty quantification for predictions from statistical and machine learning models

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr George Devitt

Research interests

  • Dementia
  • Diagnostics
  • Raman spectroscopy 
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Professor Ian Galea MD FRCP PhD

Prof (Clinical & Experimental Neurology)

Research interests

  • Neurovascular biology
  • Blood-brain barrier
  • Haemoglobin neurotoxicity

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jay Amin BM, MRCPsych, PhD

Assoc Prof in Psychiatry of Older Age

Research interests

  • Developing our understanding of the role of inflammation in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease, including how it affects disease progression.
  • Undertaking cohort studies exploring clinical outcomes in dementia.
  • Undertaking clinical trials testing novel treatments in dementia.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Jessica Teeling

Prof of Experimental Neuroimmunology

Research interests

  • Neuroimmunology
  • Systemic inflammation
  • Oral microbiome

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Dr Mariana Vargas-Caballero

Associate Professor

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Professor Peter Smith BSc, PhD, MA, FRSB

Professor of Life Sciences
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Professor Roxi Carare

Head of School

Research interests

  • Causes and new therapeutic strategies for dementias and other neurodegenerative diseases
  • New early diagnostic measures in dementia based on biomarkers from the nose
  • Drug delivery to the brain

Accepting applications from PhD students

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