Past grantees

Principal applicant
Dorothee Auer

Year
2023

Grant recipient
The University of Nottingham

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Boosting the prospective serial MRI Insight PD cohort for longitudinal validation of MRI markers to track nigral depigmentation and microstructural changes across early stages of PD

Principal applicant
George Tofaris

Year
2023

Grant recipient
University of Oxford

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Validation of neuronally-derived extracellular vesicle alpha-syn in PD progression or phenoconversion

Principal applicant
Nick Fox and Sebastian Crutch

Year
2023

Grant recipient
The National Brain Appeal

Project
Rare Dementia Support

Principal applicant
Joanna Wardlaw

Year
2023

Grant recipient
The University of Edinburgh

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Translational validation of perivascular spaces on brain MRI as a biomarker for cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases of ageing

Principal applicant
Nick Fox and Sebastian Crutch

Year
2021

Grant recipient
The National Brain Appeal

Project
Rare Dementia Support

Principal applicant
Nick Fox and Sebastian Crutch

Year
2020

Grant recipient
The National Brain Appeal

Project
Rare Dementia Support

Principal applicant
Dorothee Auer

Year
2019

Grant recipient
The University of Nottingham

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
In vivo serial neuromelanin MRI to assess depigmentation rates in the substantia nigra of early Parkinson’s disease

Principal applicant
Jeff Davies

Year
2019

Grant recipient
Swansea University

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland,
Netherlands, UK

Project
Circulating ghrelin as a dementia biomarker

Principal applicant
Sandrine Thuret

Year
2019

Grant recipient
King's College London

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Measuring cellular alteration of neural progenitors exposed to serum from individuals with mild cognitive impairment: A biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease prognosis

Principal applicant
Joanna Wardlaw

Year
2019

Grant recipient
The University of Edinburgh

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Perivascular spaces: an early marker of vascular contributions to neurodegeneration

Principal applicant
Sahar El Aidy

Year
2018

Grant recipient
University of Groningen

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Gut bacterial tyrosine decarboxylase as a predictive biomarker to identify Parkinson’s disease patients with motor fluctuations requiring frequent levodopa administration

Principal applicant
Connie Jimenez

Year
2018

Grant recipient
VU University Medical Center

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Validated cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment stages to Alzheimer’s Disease

Principal applicant
Laura Parkkinen

Year
2018

Grant recipient
University of Oxford

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Development of alpha-synuclein seeding assay as an early, progression and stratifying biomarker for synucleinopathies in CSF and peripheral biosamples

Principal applicant
Nick Fox and Sebastian Crutch

Year
2018

Grant recipient
The National Brain Appeal

Project
Rare Dementia Support

Principal applicant
Eline Willemse

Year
2018

Grant recipient
VU University Medical Center

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Getting Neurofilament Light into the clinic to help detecting axonal damage

Principal applicant
Rik van der Kant

Year
2017

Grant recipient
VU University Amsterdam

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
A personalised medicine approach to cholesterol targeting drugs in Alzheimer’s disease

Principal applicant
Jonathan Schott

Year
2017

Grant recipient
University College London

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Developing blood-based biomarkers to detect preclinical Alzheimer's disease and predict progression

Principal applicant
Charlotte Teunissen

Year
2017

Grant recipient
VU University Medical Center

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Pathology-driven CSF biomarkers for Frontotemporal Dementia and its pathological subtypes

Principal applicant
George Tofaris

Year
2017

Grant recipient
University of Oxford

Programme
Novel Biomarkers: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Electrochemical detection of exosomal 
alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease

Principal applicant
Marcel Verbeek

Year
2017

Grant recipient
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
An Amyloid Beta Profile Specific for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Principal applicant
Martijn Van den Heuvel

Year
2016

Grant recipient
University Medical Center Utrecht

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Developing New MRI Connectome Biomarkers of Disease Outcome for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Principal applicant
Teus van Laar

Year
2016

Grant recipient
University Medical Center Utrecht

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Developing New MRI Connectome Biomarkers of Disease Outcome for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Principal applicant
Pilar Martinez

Year
2016

Grant recipient
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
Plasma ceramides and CERT proteins as prognostic biomarkers for AD

Principal applicant
Wiep Scheper

Year
2016

Grant recipient
VU University Amsterdam

Programme
Rapid Response: Ireland, Netherlands, UK

Project
UPR activity as early biomarker for tauopathies