Published 1 July 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2649
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b2649

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British scientists call for £96m a year to fund dementia research

Daniel Henderson

1 BMJ

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Leading professors and two UK charities have called on the government to increase the annual funding for dementia research threefold to £96m ({euro}113m; $159m), or 6% of the total medical research budget, over the next five years.

The extra money would go towards helping British scientists investigate the causes and improve the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, said the Alzheimer’s Society and the Alzheimer’s Research Trust ahead of a summit on dementia next month organised by the Medical Research Council and the Department of Health.

The United Kingdom is the leading country in Europe in terms of research into dementia (on the basis of numbers of papers cited between 2004 and 2009), despite funding being less per person than in Germany and France.

The United States leads the way globally, with more than double the amount of funding per person and consequently more research. Furthermore, President Barrack Obama has . . . [Full text of this article]


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