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Many congratulations to Rebecca, who has passed her viva with flying colours on Monday 23rd March 2026.

Read the powerful story of Andre Yarham, a patient of Professor James Rowe and the youngest person in the UK diagnosed with FTD, in this Medscape article on the critical importance of recognising dementia in young adults.

We are thrilled to celebrate Dr Maura Malpetti, who has been named Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Early-Career Investigator of the Year. Read more about her groundbreaking work on FTD inflammation and the ON-FIRE study in this researcher spotlight.

Dr Juliette Lanskey and the teams at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Cardiff have found a new way to monitor how dementia treatments affect the brain—without invasive procedures. Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) scans and advanced computer modelling, they tracked how common dementia medication interacts with brain receptors in living pa…

Prof Karalyn Patterson, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge, has been chosen to receive a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of women in STEM.Prof Patterson will be honoured at a special event on Friday 6 November 2020, the sixth Suffrage Science awards celebration for women working in the Life Scienc…

Professor Rowe is looking for a Research Assistant. The post holder will be involved in several exciting project, please see the advert for more details http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/22651/ Closing date is 1st September 2019.

Professor Rowe is looking for a new Research Assistant.The post holder will work on several exciting projects within out Group, here is the advert providing the details. The closing date for the advert is 1st September. http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/22651/

Professor Rowe and Dr Rittman are happy to consider PhD applicants for the academic year 2020-2021. Please look at the following link for funding available through the Department of Clinical Neurosciences: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/workandstudy/postgraduate-training/research-projects/Here are the projects available for supervision…

Dr Holland has been awarded a highly prestigious Brain fellowship to study the impact of PSP and CBS on synapses using PET. Dr Negin Holland will undertake her PhD here thanks to a 3 year fellowship from the Guarantors of Brain. With an academic clinical fellowship in Neurology, she has already made a substantial contribution to research at the Cen…

New post doctoral fellowship for FTD - Dr Kamen Tsvetanov We are delighted that Kamen Tsvetanov has been awarded a prestigious 3-year Guarantors of Brain post doctoral fellowship. He brings advanced multivariate image analysis experience to the Cambridge Centre for FTD, to  study the subtle brain changes that occur in the years leading up to sympto…

FTD-UK returns in its 9th year, to Cambridge on 18th October 2019. The one day event aims to bring the entire UK community of FTD researchers together, with updates in the fast moving areas of genetics, cell and molecular biology, imaging and cognition, clinical trials and more. The final program will be released shortly, but get the date in your …

Link below provides a video of the presentation of Professor James Rowe (scroll to 1:09 minute) given at the UK Dementia MRI Conference, which took place in July this year. https://youtu.be/UVqWknXX_E4

James Rowe has been awarded with the Sissons Fellowship at Darwin College, Cambridge.In memory of Professor Sir Patrick Sissons MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci. (1945-2016) who was the leader of the University of Cambridge’s Clinical School as Regius Professor of Physic (2005–2012) following his service as Head of the Department of Medicine (1993-2005).…

Recently we have published new articles from our lab and with collaborators:Devenney, E. M., Swinn, T., Mioshi, E., Hornberger, M., Dawson, K. E., Mead, S., Rowe, J. B., Hodges, J. R. (2018). The behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia phenocopy syndrome - longitudinal follow-up and the C9orf72 expansion. BMC Neurology, 18:56. doi:10.1186/s12883…

Dr Thomas Cope successfully passed his PhD viva on Thursday 29th March 2018. Congratulations!