Congratulations to Rhian Convery and Mica Clarke from the FTDtalk team, who have both recently completed their PhDs after successfully defending their theses. Rhian's work focused on investigatin...
Since our last new members introductory blog back in 2021 there’s been quite a lot of change to the team, so we wanted to introduce everyone again. We hope that this way you can get to know a bit ab...
The 24th of September to the 1st of October marks the commencement of World Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Awareness week. As part of this, the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) has...
The annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) took place earlier this summer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference brings together experts from around the world to share...
Every year, alongside the main GENFI summer meeting (see our previous blog post for a full rundown), we hold our annual Participant Engagement Board (PEB) meeting. This is a roundtable discussion betw...
The week before last, Barbara Borroni, Daniela Galimberti, and their teams, hosted the annual Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) Summer Investigators Meeting in Brescia, Italy. The two...
Following a short hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, last week marked the 10th edition of the annual FTD-UK conference with a successful event held at University College London (UCL). The meeting se...
Congratulations to Imogen Swift from our team who was recently shortlisted for a national award called the MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Prize. Her article is below, and was written after intervie...
Two new papers have been published by our team this month highlighting the role of inflammation in the brain in people with FTD. Both papers have been led by Aitana Sogorb Esteve from our team. The...
Congratulations to Aitana Sogorb Esteve from our team who has just been awarded a prestigious 5 year fellowship from Race Against Dementia. The fellowship will support her work with our team and a...
