Dementia Frontiers Fund — Seed funding stage
Funds interdisciplinary seed teams shaping dementia proposals for larger follow-on awards.
The Dementia Frontiers Fund is a flagship multi-year initiative co-led by Alzheimer's Research UK and Gates Ventures, designed to fund paradigm-shifting approaches to three specific unresolved dementia challenges: predicting and staging disease progression, understanding the contribution of different brain pathologies, and identifying resilience mechanisms in high-risk populations. The seed fundin…
Three paradigm-shift dementia questions: disease progression prediction/staging, contribution of different brain changes, and resilience in high-risk populations.
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