Alumni

Alzheimer's Society has an outstanding record of investing in researchers. Of the biomedical research fellows that we have funded over the last 20 years, 70% have remained active in dementia research and 60% now hold tenured positions in universities and research institutes.

Past recipients of our Fellowship awards

1992 
Professor Stephen Gentleman, Imperial College London

1993 
Dr Christine Davies, fellowship at University of Manchester 
Professor Marcus Richards, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing

1994 
Professor Nick Fox, Institute of Neurology, UCL (watch his video)
Professor Declan McLoughlin, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience

1995 
Dr Diane Hanger, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London 
Dr Christine Coughlan, fellowship at University of Dundee 
Dr Jayne Arnold, University of Nottingham 
Dr Peter Estebiero, fellowship at University of Edinburgh 
Dr Geraldine Lally, fellowship at University of Cambridge

1996 
Dr Paul Holden, fellowship at University of Bristol 
Dr Fiona Shaw, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals
Dr Catherine Donaldson,  Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London 
Dr Marie-Therese Webster, fellowship at King's College London

1997 
Dr Janet Johnston, Queen's University Belfast 
Dr Richard Harvey, fellowship at Institute of Neurology, UCL

1998 
Dr Georgina Charlesworth, Division of Psychology and Language Science, UCL (watch her video)
Dr Andrea Tales, Swansea University

1999 
Dr Michelle Utton, fellowship at Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London 
Dr Lynne Corner, Newcastle University 
Dr Jayne Freeman, University of Reading

2000 
Dr Ritchie Williamson, University of Bradford

2001 
Dr Louise Allan, Newcastle University 
Dr Amritpal Mudher, University of Southampton (watch her video)

2000 
Dr Bastiaan Hoogendorn, Cardiff University 
Dr Desmond Walsh, Medical Research Council

2003 
Dr Joanna Collingwood, University of Warwick   
Dr Jonathon Schott, Institute of Neurology, UCL 
Dr Madhav Thambisetty, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, John Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

2004 
Dr Wendy Noble, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

2005 
Dr Virginie Sottile, University of Nottingham

2006 
Dr Michael Perkinton, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London 
Dr Jill Fowler, Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh 
Dr Paul Hopkins, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

2007 
Dr Sarah Voss, University of the West of England

2008 
Dr Gayle Doherty, St Andrews University 
Dr Kaylene Young,  Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Australia 
Dr Gillian Hamilton, University of Edinburgh 
Dr Claudie Hooper, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

2009 
Dr Emma Jones, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London

Past recipients of our PhD studentships

2006 
Dr Jennifer Mayes (supervised by Professor David Allsop) - now at Lancaster University

2007 
Dr Claire Garwood (supervised by Dr Diane Hanger) - now at University of Sheffield
David Buglar (supervised by Professor Sandy Oliver)

2008 
Dr Stephanie Strohbuecker (supervised by Dr Virginie Sottile) 
Dr Martha Hvoslef-Eide (supervised by Professor Mark Good) - now at University of Cambridge

2009 
Dr Mary Finnegan (supervised by Dr Joanna Collingwood) 
Dr Manja Lehmann (supervised by Professor Nick Fox) - at Dementia Research Centre, UCL
Dr David Whitfield (supervised by Professor Paul Francis) - at King's College London
Dr James Edgar (supervised by Dr Clare Futter) - now at Cambridge University

2010 
Ryan West (supervised by Dr Sean Sweeney) - at University of York

Past recipients of our Undergraduate bursaries

In summer 2013 we began awarding Undergraduate summer bursaries in partnership with the Society of Biology.

2013

Daniella Cavellini (supervised by Professor Michael Ashford) 
Alexander Robert Yon (supervised by Dr John Christodoulou) 
Benjamin Clarke (supervised by Professor Neil Marrion
Okanda Ogbonda (supervised by Dr Roxanna O Carare) - watch his video

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