Research news

Breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease are exciting and invigorating dementia research, and we will need to be ready to deliver new treatments as they come through, say Professor Nick Fox and Dr Catherine Mummery.

A large trial at UCLH and UCL will investigate whether a drug currently in use to treat respiratory conditions can slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.

A UCLH/UCL clinical trial of a personalised therapy for blood cancer has been expanded, meaning new groups of patients with a wider range of blood cancers are now receiving the treatment.

The first UK trial to test the benefits of proton beam therapy for certain patients with breast cancer has launched at UCLH.

A large trial at UCLH is looking to optimise chemotherapy for young people with nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL).