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A biweekly podcast for early career researchers, bringing together fantastic guests to discuss their research, careers + much more. Dedicated to sharing the science, encouraging collaborations, attracting more people to the field of Alzheimer's and other dementias research, and supporting those already here to succeed. Brought to you by https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk at University College London, in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia - everything you need, all in one place. supporting early career researchers across the world Register today to recieve weekly bulletins, with news, funding opportunities, jobs, and events.

  1. The B-Sides - Lillian Morgado

    53m ago • Subscribers Only

    The B-Sides - Lillian Morgado

    Same researchers, different track. The B Sides is the bonus series from Dementia Researcher, available exclusively for our YouTube and Apple Podcasts subscribers. Recorded alongside our main episodes, these shows provide a more personal conversation about the twists, motivations, habits, and moments that shape a life in research. In this episode, Adam Smith is joined by Lillian Morgado, fresh from recording our main ISTAART Relay discussion on the work of the Health Policy Professional Interest Area. In this B-Sides conversation, Lillian reflects on the moment that pushed her towards policy research after seeing how difficult it could be for families to navigate care systems and public benefits. She talks about the difference between helping people case by case and trying to improve the systems that those people rely on, the role of evidence in shaping policy, and why clear communication matters so much in public health. Lillian also shares how a talk on air pollution, wealth and brain health shaped her thinking, why researchers need to be careful about what they claim, and the joy of presenting her first poster at AAIC. -- Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social -- Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support

    26 min
  2. Relay Podcast - Health Policy PIA

    16h ago ·  Video

    Relay Podcast - Health Policy PIA

    Welcome to the seventh season of the Dementia Researcher X ISTAART PIA Relay Podcast. Across six episodes, leading early career and senior researchers hand the mic from one ISTAART PIA to the next, giving you an honest, peer-to-peer tour of where dementia research is actually heading, from wearables and biomarkers to policy and trial design, in the run-up to AAIC. If we cured Alzheimer's tomorrow but did no work on cost, distribution or access, we would have cured it only for the richest people in the world. That line from Lillian Morgado sits at the centre of this episode. Lillian is a research coordinator at Georgia State University and Communications Chair of the ISTAART Health Policy PIA, working mainly in qualitative research and legal epidemiology. With host Dr Vanessa Young, she talks through what qualitative work actually involves, her research on caregivers and people with dementia in the justice system, and the question that opened up next: what happens to someone with no caregiver to advocate for them. They get into why AI and blood-based biomarkers are as much policy problems as scientific ones, how regulation differs across borders, and why policy is the bridge that decides whether science reaches the people it was meant for. Lillian also runs through the Health Policy PIA's busy week at AAIC, from PIA Day to a featured research session on dementia care across countries. Takeaways Policy is the bridge from the lab to the patient; without it, a breakthrough only reaches the few who can already afford care.Qualitative interviews and coding surface the right questions before the big quantitative money goes in.Caregivers matter enormously when someone with dementia meets the justice system, which raises the question of those who have none.AI and blood-based biomarkers carry legal and access questions, and the rules differ between, say, the US and Europe under GDPR.You do not join a PIA because you already belong; you belong because you get involved, and you need not be an expert to contribute. -- The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) convenes the global Alzheimer’s and dementia science community. Members share knowledge, fuel collaboration and advance research to find more effective ways to detect, treat and prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Professional Interest Areas (PIA) are an assembly of ISTAART members with common subspecialties or interests. There are currently 30 PIAs covering a wide range of interests and fields, from Neuroimaging to Diversity and Disparities and everything in between. Find out more at https://istaart.alz.org/ -- A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website. Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunityhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders: Alzheimer’s Association, Race Against Dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the producers, funders, or sponsors. Subscribe to our sister show 'Dementia Researcher The Blogs': https://podfollow.com/dementia-researcher-blogs

    29 min
  3. The B-Sides - Dr Vanessa Young

    1d ago • Subscribers Only

    The B-Sides - Dr Vanessa Young

    Same researchers, different track. The B Sides is the bonus series from Dementia Researcher, available exclusively for our YouTube and Apple Podcasts subscribers. Recorded alongside our main episodes, these shows provide a more personal conversation about the twists, motivations, habits, and moments that shape a life in research. In this episode, Adam Smith is joined by Dr Vanessa Young, fresh from recording our main ISTAART Relay discussion on the work of the Technology and Dementia PIA. In this B-Sides conversation, Vanessa reflects on her unconventional route into research, from running a bed and breakfast in Italy to studying psychology and building a career in sleep, ageing and Alzheimer’s research. She shares how her experiences in tourism, volunteering in Kenya, community outreach and later-life education all shaped the researcher she is today. Vanessa also talks about where her ideas come from, the challenge of explaining research to family, and the lasting impact mentors can have — for better or worse — on early-career researchers. -- Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social -- Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support

    29 min
  4. Relay Podcast - Technology and Dementia PIA

    1d ago ·  Video

    Relay Podcast - Technology and Dementia PIA

    Welcome to the seventh season of the Dementia Researcher X ISTAART PIA Relay Podcast. Across six episodes, leading early career and senior researchers hand the mic from one ISTAART PIA to the next, giving you an honest, peer-to-peer tour of where dementia research is actually heading, from wearables and biomarkers to policy and trial design, in the run-up to AAIC. Sleep might be one of the earliest windows we have into brain health, and Dr Vanessa Young thinks the way we measure it is about to change. Fresh from finishing her PhD in May, Vanessa is a postdoc at the Glenn Biggs Institute and Communications Chair of the Technology and Dementia PIA. She studies sleep and the ageing brain, where the relationship seems to run both ways: as dementia develops, sleep gets worse, and poor sleep may feed back into the disease. With host Dr Carla Abdelnour, she gets into digital biomarkers, why wearables let you capture sleep continuously at home rather than in a one-off sleep study, and the move from wearables to "nearables", bed sensors and room radar that ask nothing of the participant at all. They also cover the analysis headache that comes with years of continuous data, the equity problem when a study needs home Wi-Fi, and what the PIA has planned for its full-day AAIC preconference on AI. Takeaways Sleep and dementia feed each other, so sleep is worth studying as somewhere we might actually step in and help.Wearables capture sleep night after night at home, which reaches people who live nowhere near a big sleep centre.The field is shifting from wearables to "nearables", sensors in the mattress or radar in the room, to cut participant burden and bias.Years of continuous data brings its own problem: telling meaningful signal apart from background noise.If a study needs Wi-Fi to send its data, it quietly excludes people, so digital equity has to be designed in. -- The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) convenes the global Alzheimer’s and dementia science community. Members share knowledge, fuel collaboration and advance research to find more effective ways to detect, treat and prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Professional Interest Areas (PIA) are an assembly of ISTAART members with common subspecialties or interests. There are currently 30 PIAs covering a wide range of interests and fields, from Neuroimaging to Diversity and Disparities and everything in between. Find out more at https://istaart.alz.org/ -- A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website. Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunityhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders: Alzheimer’s Association, Race Against Dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the producers, funders, or sponsors. Subscribe to our sister show 'Dementia Researcher The Blogs': https://podfollow.com/dementia-researcher-blogs

    37 min
  5. The B-Sides - Dr Lesley Williamson

    Jun 19 • Subscribers Only

    The B-Sides - Dr Lesley Williamson

    Same researchers, different track. The B Sides is the bonus series from Dementia Researcher, available exclusively for our YouTube and Apple Podcasts subscribers. Recorded alongside our main episodes, these shows provide a more personal conversation about the twists, motivations, habits, and moments that shape a life in research. In this episode, Dr Alice Carstairs is joined by Dr Lesley Williamson from King's College London, fresh from recording our main discussion on her work on the PALLEDEM Study and work to improve end of life dementia home care. Lesley shares her journey from clinical psychiatry to impactful dementia research, highlighting the importance of policy engagement, collaboration, and maintaining a person-centered approach in research. -- Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social -- Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support

    28 min
  6. Supporting Dementia at Home: Insights from PALLDEM

    Jun 19 ·  Video

    Supporting Dementia at Home: Insights from PALLDEM

    Most people with dementia live, and many die, at home. The person who knows them best in those final months is often not a clinician but a home care worker coming through the door several times a day, doing some of the hardest work in the dementia pathway with little training and almost no research behind them. This episode asks what good home care actually looks like, why it is so hard to deliver, and what one study is doing about it. Host Dr Alice Carstairs is joined by the PALLDEM Homecare team from the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London: Dr Lesley Williamson, who co-leads the study; research assistant Annika Dhawan, who runs the engagement work; and Dr Clare Ellis-Smith, who developed the IPOS Dem outcome measure. They are joined by lived experience expert Alan Richardson, who cared for his mother for 15 years, and Tony O'Flaherty, director at Home Instead Wandsworth, Lambeth and Dulwich. Together they cover what IPOS Dem is, why home care gets so little attention, what it really takes to get a tool used on the ground, and why recognition for this workforce is overdue. Essential Links: Famileo - https://bit.ly/FamileoDR26PALLDEM-Homecare - https://bit.ly/4e6bdvdIPOS-Dem - https://bit.ly/4vJgkaA Key topics: Role of home care workers in dementia supportImplementation of iPOSDEM in home care settingsChallenges and solutions in home care for dementiaResearch and innovation in community dementia care This episode is sponsored by Famileo. Helping families living with dementia stay close with a personalised printed magazine, delivered monthly. Over a quarter of a million families already use Famileo to stay connected. First month free with code DR26. https://bit.ly/FamileoDR26 -- A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website. Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunityhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders: Alzheimer’s Association, Race Against Dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the producers, funders, or sponsors. Subscribe to our sister show 'Dementia Researcher The Blogs': https://podfollow.com/dementia-researcher-blogs -- This podcast is sponsored by Famileo. The sponsor had no involvement in the planning, production, editorial decisions, or content of this episode.

    1h 4m
  7. The B-Sides - Jonathan Hoover

    Jun 5 • Subscribers Only

    The B-Sides - Jonathan Hoover

    Same researchers, different track. The B Sides is the bonus series from Dementia Researcher, available exclusively for our YouTube and Apple Podcasts subscribers. Recorded alongside our main episodes, these shows provide a more personal conversation about the twists, motivations, habits, and moments that shape a life in research. In this episode, Louise Serpell is joined by Jonathan Hoover from Prima Mente, fresh from recording our main discussion on agentic AI and the future of dementia research. Jonathan reflects on the winding route that took him from biology and neuroscience, through immunology labs, statistics, single cell research, and into the world of AI driven discovery. The conversation explores what happens when you love science but realise the wet lab may not be the place you want to stay, how statistics opened up a new way of thinking, and why tools like Parthenon and Athena are being built to help researchers ask better questions, test ideas more efficiently, and make smarter use of complex biological data. Along the way, there is talk of career pivots, learning new skills, finding your place between disciplines, and the small decisions that slowly add up to a research life. A warm, curious and very relatable conversation about the routes into science that rarely look straight on paper. -- Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social -- Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support

    9 min
  8. Agentic AI and the Future of Dementia Research

    Jun 5 ·  Video

    Agentic AI and the Future of Dementia Research

    In this episode, Professor Louise Serpell brings together Dr Niranjan Bose from the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative, Jonathan Hoover from the AI company Prima Mente, and Dr Kexin Huang from Stanford University and Biomni AD. They discuss the Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize and what agentic AI could mean for the future of dementia research. We hear about the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative and AD Workbench, and their role in making research data more accessible, usable and secure. The conversation also looks at how the Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize could help researchers make better use of that data, turning complex resources into practical tools for discovery. Kexin introduces Biomni AD, an AI research assistant designed to help scientists develop questions, bring data together and move from ideas to results more efficiently. Jonathan introduces Parthenon and Athena, a virtual wet lab system that helps researchers model cell states, test perturbations and plan experiments. Together, the guests consider how AI can support researchers without replacing human judgement, and why confidence in using these tools is likely to become an important skill for dementia researchers. Essential Links: Sign up for AD WorkbenchLearn more about the AD Data InitiativeLearn more about the Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize Prima MenteBiomni-AD In this episode: AI can support researchers by helping with data, workflows and experimental planning, but it still needs human judgement, review and validation.AD Workbench from Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative is helping make dementia research data more accessible, usable and secure, giving researchers better ways to work across complex datasets.Agentic AI could help researchers move more quickly from a research question to an analysis plan, useful evidence or a possible experiment.Biomni AD, Parthenon and Athena show how AI tools are becoming more specialised, from research assistants to virtual wet lab systems.AI literacy is likely to become an important skill for dementia researchers, including those without coding or data science backgrounds. -- A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk. If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website. Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunityhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders: Alzheimer’s Association, Race Against Dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the producers, funders, or sponsors. Subscribe to our sister show 'Dementia Researcher The Blogs': https://podfollow.com/dementia-researcher-blogs

    57 min
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A biweekly podcast for early career researchers, bringing together fantastic guests to discuss their research, careers + much more. Dedicated to sharing the science, encouraging collaborations, attracting more people to the field of Alzheimer's and other dementias research, and supporting those already here to succeed. Brought to you by https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk at University College London, in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia - everything you need, all in one place. supporting early career researchers across the world Register today to recieve weekly bulletins, with news, funding opportunities, jobs, and events.

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