Every year, alongside the main GENFI summer meeting (see our previous blog post for a full rundown), we hold our annual Participant Engagement Board (PEB) meeting. This is a roundtable discussion betw...
The week before last, Barbara Borroni, Daniela Galimberti, and their teams, hosted the annual Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) Summer Investigators Meeting in Brescia, Italy. The two...
Following a short hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, last week marked the 10th edition of the annual FTD-UK conference with a successful event held at University College London (UCL). The meeting se...
Congratulations to Imogen Swift from our team who was recently shortlisted for a national award called the MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Prize. Her article is below, and was written after intervie...
Two new papers have been published by our team this month highlighting the role of inflammation in the brain in people with FTD. Both papers have been led by Aitana Sogorb Esteve from our team. The...
Congratulations to Aitana Sogorb Esteve from our team who has just been awarded a prestigious 5 year fellowship from Race Against Dementia. The fellowship will support her work with our team and a...
We have a new paper out this week led by Georgia Peakman investigating how we might measure the progression of symptoms in FTD. This uses data from the GENFI study to look at the only two commonly use...
Two recent papers from our team led by Martina Bocchetta have highlighted the importance of brain regions outside of the frontal and temporal lobes in FTD. Although FTD is named after these two lob...
We have a new paper out this week led by Hannah Franklin, who was a PhD rotation student with us last year. She focused on using a questionnaire called the Revised Self-Monitoring Scale (RSMS) that we...
For those interested in hearing about what we have learned in brain imaging in FTD in the last ten years, then sign up to this webinar which is being run by ISTAART. It is designed to be an educationa...
