DALLAS: A former Aylesbury High School student shared her latest findings in dementia research with international scientists at a major conference.
Jessica Duncombe, now at the University of Edinburgh, took to the stage in Manchester to share her results with a room of more than 480 scientists at the Alzheimer’s Research UK annual conference, the biggest gathering of dementia researchers in the country.
Jessica’s PhD work, funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK, focuses on how changes in blood vessels in the brain can contribute to Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia – the two leading causes of dementia in the UK.
Her findings in mice revealed that the vital process of blood flow meeting the demands of nerve cells in the brain can go awry as we grow older and could explain why some people develop memory and thinking difficulties in later life…