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Dementia Discovery Fund, UK Dementia Research Institute partner to fund dementia research

October 24, 2018 5:18 PM UTC

The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) and UK Dementia Research Institute launched a partnership dubbed D3A to grant multiple awards of £100,000-£200,000 ($130,768-$261,536) to support clinical translation.

D3A will fund translational projects from UK Dementia Research Institute centers and other academic UK-based research groups that have the potential to be spun out or licensed to a company. It will initially review proposals with a focus on therapeutic targets and therapeutics across all forms of dementia, and expects to fund multiple projects from this first call for proposals with plans for additional calls for proposals throughout 2019. Awards will come from DDF funds; a DDF spokesperson declined to disclose how much D3A will have at its disposal...