Scientific Advisory Board

Our voluntary Scientific Advisory Board consists of world-class experts in dementia research. The Board puts forward to the Trustees its recommendations on overall research strategy and individual grants for funding.

Working at the forefront of dementia research, our Scientific Advisory Board generously give their time for free to ensure that work funded by the Alzheimer's Research Trust is cost-effective and offers the best hope of making progress towards a cure, treatment or prevention.

• Prof Julie Williams

  Chair

  

  Cardiff University - Professor of Neuropsychological Genetics, Department of Psychological Medicine

• Prof Nick Fox

  

  UCL - Professor of Clinical Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurology

• Prof John Hardy FRS

  

  University College London - Professor of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology and Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease. Fellow of the Royal Society.
  

• Prof Nigel Hooper

  

  University of Leeds - Professor of Biochemistry, Director, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Dr Karen Horsburgh

  

  University of Edinburgh - Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director Centre for Neuroscience Research, School of Biomedical Sciences

• Prof Chris Miller

  

  King's College London - Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience

• Prof Kevin Morgan

  

  University of Nottingham - Professor of Human Genomics, Molecular Genetics Institute

• Prof Maria-Grazia Spillantini

  

  University of Cambridge - Reader in Molecular Neurology, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair

• Prof Peter St George-Hyslop

  

  University of Cambridge - Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Clinical Neuroscience. Fellow of the Royal Society.
  

• Dr Richard Wade-Martins

  

  University of Oxford - University Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

• Dick Bell

  Lay member

  

  Both of Dick's parents had dementia so he fully understands the impact it has on families.

• Jim Jackson

  Lay member

  

  Jim is the former Chief Executive of Alzheimer Scotland. He is currently a non-executive board member of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and a member of the Advisory Board for Generation Scotland.

   

   

• Barry Plumpton

  Lay member

  

  Barry has personal experience of caring for a close family member with dementia.