Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt MP visited The University of Queensland today to announce more than $440 million in NHMRC funding for Australian researchers.
Sports broadcaster Pat Welsh will be the keynote speaker at the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR) Public Dementia Forum at the Queensland Brain Institute is on 3 July.
A non-invasive potential treatment for Alzheimer’s has been used safely on older brains, researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have confirmed.
Finding a cure for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is challenging. They’re difficult to diagnose, and drugs struggle to get into the brain as the brain’s blood supply is largely separate to the rest of the body.
