Information regarding Collaborations with CFAS can be found through the links below:

 

 

 

CFAS Wales

Year Commenced: 2010

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: University of Swansea

 

 

Methodology for item response models

Description: New insight, ideas for future work, and two manuscripts

Year Commenced: 2010

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: University of Twente

Biomarkers for AD

Description: bringing expertise on development and application of biomarkers relevant to prediction of dementia.

Year Commenced: 2009

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College (KCL)

 

MRC CFAS Genetics

Description: We will be genotyping up to 20,000 genetic variants in the MRC CFAS cohort and testing these for association with Alzheimer's disease risk, disease modification and interaction with environmental risk factors. We will contribute to the analysis in collaboration with CFAS partners.

Year Commenced: 2010

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: University of Cambridge

 

Investigating a new biomarker of dementia: TDP-43

Description: Data generation.

Year Commenced: 2010

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: University of Cambridge

 

ART fellowship collaboration

Description: Intellectual contribution to the multi-state and latent variable analyses of cognitive decline.

Year Commenced: 2010

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: University of Edinburgh

 

Maintaining function and well-being in later life.

Description: Knowledge of biochemical analysis in relation to cognition in the elderly

Year Commenced: 2010

Status: Ongoing.

Collaborator: Bangor University

Biochemical indicies of synaptic and neuronal density

Description: The collaboration underpins a successful MRC Project grant funded from 2010

Year Commenced: 2009

Status: Ongoing.

Impact: provision of frozen human brain tissue and associated clinicopathological research data

Collaborator Department: Clinical Science at Bristol North

 

Collaboration Name: Modelling Ageing Populations to 2030

Collaborators: Health and Social care, London School of Economics and Political Science. Leader of research grant. Contributed expertise on mortality trends to our model. Provided vehicle to feed results to policy.

Year Commenced: 2007.

Status: Ongoing.

Impact: Impact on Pensions reform and Social Care funding reforms

Collaboration Name: LSE/PSSRU Collaboration

Collaborators: LSE/PSSRU. Used CFAS results in policy analysis which have influenced policy development.

Year Commenced: Pre -2006

Status: Ongoing.

Impact: CFAS II LSE/PSSRU is now a collaborative group.

Collaboration Name:Alz Soc - Dementia UK

Collaborators: Alzheimer Society. CFAS collaborators involved in DELPHI analysis which resulted in highly influential report dominated by CFAS as the main source of evidence for the results.

Year Commenced: 2006

Status: Ongoing.

Impact: CFAS results contributed a major way to the Dementia UK (Alzheimer's Society report) as it was the main source of evidence. The importance of CFAS as a data source for many of the report's outputs is acknowledged in the full text. The oft quoted '700,00 people with dementia in UK' is a CFAS finding.

Collaboration Name: Eclipse Collaboration

Collaborators: Vantaa, CC75C. Contribution of clinicopathological data to grouped analyses.

Year Commenced: 2008

Status: Ongoing.

Collaboration Name: Pathology Consortium

Collaborators: Department of Clinical Science at North Bristol, Clinical Neurosciences, University of Southampton, Conway Institute, University College Dublin.

Year Commenced: 2008.

Status: Ongoing.

Collaboration Name:Impact of vitamin B12 and its metabolities on cognition and cognitive domains

Collaborators: Department of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK. The emphasis on the effects of vitamin B12 from a biochemical and general practice perspective.

Year Commenced: pre 2006.

Status: Ongoing.

Collaboration Name: Behavioural Psychological Symptoms in Dementia

Collaborators: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Global. Strand of research facilitated leading directly to papers and to continued research in this area.

Year Commenced: 2006

Status: Completed in 2008.

Impact: Funding of analysis which let to a publication in Psychologica Medicine and several poster/oral presentations at international and national meetings.

Collaboration Name: Impact of arthritis on disability

Collaborators:Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, UK. Expertise in treatments and trends of musculoskeletal disease in the elderly.

Year Commenced: 2008

Status: Uncertain.



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