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Our research

Laboratory work and equipments

Our research

The Care Research and Technology Centre (CR&T) launched in June 2019. Our research goal is to develop integrative technologies to support, monitor and treat people living with dementia in their own homes and elsewhere. We are using new technologies and research tools to conduct ground-breaking dementia research.

We have a unique multidisciplinary team of CR&T investigators with expertise in computer science engineering, synthetic biology, neuroscience, and clinical medicine. A cross-cutting data science programme links our research to the rest of the UK DRI. An in-house software engineering team supports the flexible development of new computing capabilities and our unique patient engagement programme, led by the Helix Centre at Imperial, brings the views of people living with dementia to the forefront.

We are investigating patients affected by the main neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy Body dementia, post-traumatic dementia, and vascular dementia. Through close integration with health and social care providers, we are rapidly translating our research findings into clinical practice.

Research programmes

Find out more about how we work as a Centre, including the six specialist research programmes led by our Group Leaders, as well as our cross-cutting research areas.

Find out more about our research programmes

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Facilities

View our facilities based across the Imperial White City Campus, UK DRI Living Lab & Clinical Research Facility at the University of Surrey and Synthetic Biology labs.

Find out more about our facilities

Highlighted papers

We’re proud to be publishing our pioneering research into reputable journals to share our findings on how we can improve and transform dementia care.

Read some of our highlighted papers

Established in 2017 by its principal funder the Medical Research Council, in partnership with Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK, The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the UK’s leading biomedical research institute dedicated to neurodegenerative diseases.