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Dementia Research Conference 2025

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Dementia Research Conference 2025

About this event

This two-day online conference took place on 21-22 May 2025, and was hosted by Dr Dorina Cadar, Reader in Neuroepidemiology and Dementia, Centre for Dementia Studies, BSMS.

This was the fifth online Dementia Research Conference from BSMS and the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust. For 2025, the conference featured a range of national and international experts in dementia research, as well as local researchers and representation from patients who shape our research. This year's conference theme was Ageing and Dementia. 

View the conference programme here >

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Keynote talks

Blood and digital biomarkers implementation in dementia care

Dr Ivan Koychev, Reader and Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Imperial College London and Central Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust

Dementia, Care Homes and Infection: a health protection perspective

Professor Jackie Cassell, National Lead of the UK Health Security Agency

The impact of Mild Cognitive Impairment on the ability to make sense of what is going on now and to remember it later

Professor Chris Bird, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience within the School of Psychology and Director of Sussex Neuroscience.

What’s new in Frontotemporal Dementia?

Professor James Rowe, Professor of Cognitive Neurology, Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders atthe University of Cambridge and Associate Director Dementia Platform (DPUK)

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