Founded in 2017 by the Medical Research Council, Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the UK’s leading biomedical research institute dedicated to neurodegenerative diseases.
Our mission is to understand the drivers of neurodegenerative disease, fill the dementia knowledge gap, and transform that knowledge into real-world tools, diagnostics and treatments. We are an multidisciplinary institute studying diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, motor neuron disease, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, Huntington’s disease and beyond.