Southampton academic receives inaugural Dementia Research Leaders award
Dr Roxana Carare, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Sciences and Institute for Life Sciences has been awarded runner up prize for academic achievement in the inaugural Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Leaders awards.
The awards were set up to recognise the contribution that researchers make to dementia research and those affected by dementia, and judged by a panel of Research Network volunteers and current researchers in dementia causes, mechanisms of disease and potential therapies.
There were three different categories of awards including Academic Achievement; Using Research Evidence; and Patient and public involvement, and public engagement.
The Academic Achievement category awarded to Roxana, is to recognise an exciting new finding or body of work that makes a contribution to knowledge about any form of dementia.
The judges were impressed by Roxana's achievements and some of the research challenges she's had to overcome. They also commended her research engagement activities.
As we age, our brain gradually loses the ability to clear away the protein amyloid-beta; this is further exacerbated during Alzheimer's disease. Roxana has demonstrated a major pathway by which amyloid is removed from the brain.
She is now focusing on manipulating these pathways in order to improve amyloid clearance from the ageing brain in order to prevent and treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr James Pickett, head of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, said: “I’m delighted that you were awarded runners up recognition for you academic achievement in the dementia field. On behalf of the Alzheimer’s Society, I’d like to offer our congratulations. We received a very high quality field of applications and announced four winners and two runners up across the three categories.”
On receiving the news of her award, Dr Carare, said: “I am extremely proud to receive this award from the Alzheimer’s Society, particularly as it recognises the work I’m involved with in translating basic science into therapies that may ultimately prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease.”
Roxana receives a £500 bursary which can be used towards her own development in conference attendance.
Roxana is the neuroscience representative on the Steering Committee for the Institute for Life Sciences, and belongs to the Clinical and Experimental Sciences academic unit at the University of Southampton, which aims to create better treatments and diagnosis for patients, and helps to improve the health outcomes for many.
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Professor Roxana O Carare MD, PhD
Roxana Carare is a medically qualified Professor of Clinical Neuroanatomy and experimental neuropathology in the University of Southampton. Having graduated in general medicine in 1994 in Bucharest, Roxana completed her PhD in experimental neuropathology in 2006, in the University of Southampton, UK. The main international recognition for Roxana Carare has come from the neuroanatomy and neuropathology interdisciplinary research she leads, demonstrating the unique lymphatic drainage pathways by which fluid and soluble amyloid are eliminated from the brain along basement membranes within the walls of cerebral capillaries and arteries (Intramural Periarterial Drainage Pathways, IPAD).
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