Your support is funding pioneering research that will help us find a cure for dementia. Read on to find out about the research you are helping to fund.
At the moment, there are no treatments available on the NHS to slow, stop or prevent the diseases that cause it. But our cutting-edge research is accelerating progress towards a cure.
We have invested over £237 million into over 1,275 research projects since we funded our first grant in 1998. This is only possible because of the generosity of people like you, and the research you fund.
For every £1 donated in 2023/24...
71p powered our life-changing research and helped people to understand and take action on dementia.
29p helped to raise the next £1 and fund essential running costs.
Your support makes a difference
Our researchers are making incredible progress.
They’ve worked with scientists across 90 countries, producing over 5000 scientific publications.
Here are just some of the amazing advances from our scientists:
Developing dementia drugs with our Drug Discovery Alliance ensuring promising discoveries made in the lab are transformed into over 30 potential new dementia treatments right now.
Identifying over 70 risk genes that are linked to Alzheimer's disease, opening up crucial avenues for drug discovery.
Building our understanding of brain health and encouraging over 350,000 people to take the Think Brain Health Check-ins, helping us prevent more cases of dementia before they even start.
Transforming detection of the diseases that cause dementia, particularly through The Blood Biomarker Challenge, giving us the best chance of stopping these diseases before they take hold.
Our Insight 46 Study is furthering our understanding of the ageing brain and its link to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
How close are we to a cure?
Right now, there isn’t a cure for people with dementia. But donations like yours are helping change this.
Hope is on the horizon with lecanemab and donanemab - the first Alzheimer’s treatments licensed in Britain that can slow down the disease, rather than just treating its symptoms.
But lecanemab and donanemab are just the start, as they will not be enough to completely stop diseases like Alzheimer’s and other causes of dementia. It’s more important than ever that progress towards a cure continues.
Within the next decade, Alzheimer’s Research UK want people to be able to access life-changing treatments for the diseases that cause dementia.
Want to find out more?
Your support will help to change the lives of everyone affected by dementia. Find out why this is so important by reading stories of people who have been impacted by this devastating condition.
With your support we can develop treatments that will keep people connected to their families, their worlds and themselves for longer. Research can make the heartbreak of dementia a thing of the past. Read more about the exciting projects we’re funding on our research project page.
"The answers that will change and save lives are coming, and we will not stop until we find them. It's your support that will end our search For A Cure."
- Hilary Evans-Newton, Chief Executive, Alzheimer's Research UK
