Defying dementia

Lancaster City Council's Overview and Scrutiny Committee recently heard a presentation from Dr Penny Foulds, Honorary Researcher at Lancaster University, on the 'Defying Dementia' campaign.

Defying Dementia is a community-supported campaign designed to change the world that we live in and make a real difference to people's lives, by tackling the big threat that is presented by brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neurone Disease.

There are currently no drugs available that cure these diseases, none that prevent them, and only a small number that can delay their advance, depending when in the course of the disease they are taken.

Defying Dementia was founded in order to progress a promising Alzheimer's drug into human clinical trials in November 2014. Now, one year later, this drug is close to being in human trials, thanks to tremendous public support, which means that pre-clinical safety trials can be carried out.

The city council fully supports this campaign and has written to Dr Foulds (PDF, 58KB) to commend the university on this important research work.

Last updated: 11 May 2016