Prime minister David Cameron has announced that a multi-million pound fund will be launched “within weeks” to contribute to an international programme to develop treatments for dementia.
Public and private investors will contribute to the fund, which will support a range of research projects “identified by scientists as having the best potential for future success” in developing a treatment to slow or cure dementia by 2025, the Prime Minister’s Office said on 21 February.
The announcement forms part of the government’s response to the dementia challenge that Cameron launched in 2012. In his forward to a paper titled Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020, he says that by 2020 he wants the UK to be the best place in the world to undertake research into dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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