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Why we work on Alzheimer’s disease

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Translational Medicine
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Housed within the Target Discovery Institute, the Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ODDI) juxtaposes drug discovery expertise alongside scientific and academic understanding of patients, disease mechanisms and model systems.
The burden caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias represents one of the biggest problems for our healthcare systems. The last medicine was approved in 2002 and today we only have symptomatic treatments. ARUK-ODDI brings together chemists, biologist, psychiatrists and neuroscientists, many of them with pharmaceutical background, aiming to accelerate the discovery of novel and effective treatments.

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Translational Medicine
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John Davis
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease
drug discovery
disease mechanisms
Dementia
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:06:30

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