Universities in €14.6m Alzheimer’s research

IRISH scientists are to lead the way in finding therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease in a €14.6 million research project.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) are teaming up with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the programme. They will be enlisting the help of hundreds of Irish people to try and identify early indicators.

“We will be working over the next five years to identify markers in people which could help in the development of treatments to slow down the disease,” explained lead investigator, Professor Shane O’Mara of TCD’s Institute of Neuroscience.