55 million people worldwide are living with dementia, making it one of today’s greatest health challenges. Yet dementia research remains underfunded and slow moving. Traditional Fellowships often overlook high-risk, high-reward ideas. Our Fellowship programme backs early-career researchers for 5 years instead of the typical 3, giving them stability, mentoring and collaboration opportunities to pursue ambitious work and accelerate progress toward a future free of dementia.

The Big Give Campaign will fund one Fellow for a full year, enabling bold, innovative research and the pursuit of promising ideas. Our Fellows are encouraged to think independently, learn through experience and build the confidence needed to lead ambitious research through uncertainty and setbacks. Current Fellows are advancing early diagnosis through blood tests and developing new tools to study living human brain tissue, accelerating research that matters to families affected by dementia.