Our wonderful CDP runners took to the streets once again for this year’s Edinburgh Marathon Festival to tackle the 5k, 10k and marathon relay. All their hard work and excellent fundraising will make a huge contribution towards growing the PREVENT Dementia Research Programme.
In addition to our sponsored runners we are extremely grateful to the University of Edinburgh Estates Department who held an excellent bake sale series raising a staggering £2000 for the Centre. In a fantastic year of fundraising our volunteers have generated a total of over £7000 and counting!
These funds will help establish the PREVENT Dementia Genetics Core. This exciting new initiative will be led by Dr Riccardo Marioni at the University of Edinburgh who described the importance of the project:
“PREVENT Dementia is an internationally leading clinical study of Alzheimer’s dementia prevention but currently lacks a genetics and genomics element to help (1) inform our mechanistic understanding of Alzheimer’s and (2) further improve risk prediction.
University of Edinburgh Estates team hosted a series of successful Bake Sales
We have recently applied for grant funding, which if successful, will be used in tandem with your fundraising efforts to support the collection of multiple biological measures, including genetics, epigenetics (chemical changes that turn genes on/off), and protein levels to complement the existing neurologic, biologic, cognitive, and brain imaging data in PREVENT.”
Clare Dolan of the CDP ran the Edinburgh 5k for PREVENT Dementia
Integral to the value of this new analysis is the desire to share world leading, novel information with the global dementia research community.
“We intend to make these data accessible to researchers from around the world. This open science policy will promote collaboration with national and international researchers, accelerating progress towards our common goal of defeating dementia.”
The PREVENT Dementia project thrives on contributions made from its generous supporters and with more events planned in the coming months we are excited to see how this globally important study progresses.
Thank you so much to all our fantastic fundraisers, we are thrilled and humbled by the amazing support the project has received so far. With your help we can begin to understand the very earliest brain changes that occur in Alzheimer’s disease and this knowledge will power our ultimate goal of preventing dementia.
To find out more about our runners and to support the team see our JustGiving page.
