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Bringing together clinicians and researchers in the UK working on frontotemporal dementia and associated disorders.

FTDUK is co-ordinated by Professor Jonathan Rohrer (University College London), Professor James Rowe (University of Cambridge), Dr Kathryn Bowles (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Jenna Gregory (University of Aberdeen).

We run an Early Career Researcher prize for FTD researchers – this is open to any researcher who is a research assistant, PhD student or postdoctoral researcher within 5 years of completion of their PhD.

We have been running FTD UK since 2011 and after an absence during the Covid pandemic we returned in 2023 to run our 10th meeting. The meeting remains free to attend and will be in Edinburgh in 2025. Registration will open in early 2025 and the programme will be posted here in Spring.

We are very thankful to Alzheimer’s Research UK and the Guarantors of Brain who have kindly helped to fund the event each year through conference grants, and to the Alzheimer’s Society who have funded the Early Career Researcher Prize awards.

2025 – 12th Annual Meeting – Edinburgh – 30th May

9.30amRegistration
10.00amWelcome to the meeting and introduction
10.10amNovel imaging modalities for early detectionHolly Spence (University of Aberdeen)
10.30amElevated cerebrospinal fluid UCHL1 in asymptomatic C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion carriersLizzie Dellar (University of Oxford)
10.50amSymptomatic trials in FTDAlexander Murley (University of Cambridge)
11.10amCoffee break
11.40amTBC
Tara Spires-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
12.00pmTBCWendy Noble (University of Exeter)
12.20pmSynaptopathy in FTD- investigating presynaptic convergence of disease pathomechanismsEmma Clayton (King's College London)
12.40pmLunch
1.40pmB cell repertoire mining of disease resilient individuals to identify novel, protective auto-antibodies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseasesJane Osbourne (Alchemab Therapeutics)
2.00pmTBCTBC (Vesper Bio)
2.20pmNational UK dementia initiatives - are they doing enough for FTD?Panel discussion
2.40pmCoffee break
3.10pmAlzheimer's Society ECR prizes - introduction and award
3.30pmBasic Science Prize for Early Career UK FTD Researcher sponsored by the Alzheimer's Society
3.40pmClinical Science Prize for Early Career UK FTD Researcher sponsored by the Alzheimer's Society
3.50pmSummary
4.00pmFinish