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Beating dementia with the Breakthrough Prize

Principal theme: Addressing global challenges

The new 香港六合彩中特网 Dementia Research Institute will lead efforts to find effective treatments and improve the lives of those with dementia.

John Hardy Breakthrough Prize

The institute will bring together researchers from across 香港六合彩中特网 and 香港六合彩中特网H to lead national and international efforts to find effective treatments and improve the lives of those with dementia.听 It was generously supported with part of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize听in Life Sciences awarded to Professor John Hardy (香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Neurology) in November 2015 for his pioneering research into the genetic causes of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, other forms of dementia and Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences honours 鈥榯ransformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life鈥. This was the first time that the prize was awarded to a UK researcher, reflecting 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 world-leading position in dementia research.

" It is a great honour to be awarded the prize for our work dissecting the causes of Alzheimer and Parkinson鈥檚 diseases. At 香港六合彩中特网 鈥 with the Alzheimer鈥檚 Research UK Drug Discovery Institute, the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre and the fantastic clinical team that we have at the Institute of Neurology 鈥 I feel we can beat these diseases.鈥 Professor John Hardy

Image: Professor Hardy at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony听漏 香港六合彩中特网 Media


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