Grants and Charitable Donations Supporting
the Cambridge City over - 75s Cohort Study

Fieldwork and analysis

 

1984-1989 Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust

Hughes Hall Project for Later Life

D W O'Connor, P Pollitt, C P Brook and B B Reiss.

 

1985-1993 Medical Research Council/ICI

Alzheimer's disease collaborative research project

C M Wischik and Sir Aaron Klug (PIs)

1987-1990 Medical Research Council

"Dementia and cognitive decline in the elderly: incidence and intensive study"

E S Paykel, F A Huppert and C Brayne.

1992-1993 East Anglian Regional Health Authority.

"Cognitive decline, activities of daily living and service use in old age: Continuation of a cohort study."

C Brayne, F A Huppert and T Dening

1995-1996 Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority

"Intellectual impairment in the very elderly: a continuous study of natural history and service contact."

C Brayne, T R Dening and F A Huppert

1996 Taiwan Government PhD Studentship

"Health and hospital service use in the population aged 75 and over: A longitudinal study of a community sample in Cambridge City."

Justin Chi

 

1997-1998 Edward Storey Foundation

Contribution towards support for improving quality of life in very old women in Cambridge

C Brayne

1997-1998 National Health Service Executive Research and Development

The rate of cognitive decline in an elderly population

S Cullum

 

1999-2000 Research into Ageing

Natural history of cognitive and functional change in extreme old age.

C Brayne

 

2000-2004 National Health Service Executive Eastern Region R&D Unit

Functional ability, falls and fractures amongst the very elderly

J Fleming

2006-2008 The BUPA Foundation

Living and dying in extreme old age – a qualitative and quantitative study

J Fleming, S Barclay, M Farquhar, A-L Kinmonth and C Brayne

 

2006-2009 The BUPA Foundation

Living and dying in extreme old age – a qualitative and quantitative study

J Fleming, S Barclay, M Farquhar, A-L Kinmonth and C Brayne

 

2007-2009 The BUPA Foundation

EclipSE collaboration (The Epidemiological Clinicopathological Studies in Europe)

C Brayne, P Ince, F Matthews, I McKeith, T Polvikoski & R Sulkava

 

2009 to the present

National Institute for Health Research – Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

The ‘oldest old’ - a quarter century of research with the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort study

C Brayne, J Fleming, S Barclay, M Farquhar, and J Zhao

 

Neurobiology

 

1987-1992 MRC Special Project Grant

The Cambridge Brain Bank Laboratory

E S Paykel and C M Wischik

1991-1994 Wellcome Trust Prize PhD Studentship

R Lai

1992-1994 MRC Special Project Grant

The Cambridge Brain Bank's Contribution to Clinical/Epidemiological Studies of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

J Xuereb and C M Wischik

1992-1995 Leopold M'FCller Foundation

The Leopold Muller Alzheimer's Disease Research Project

C M Wischik, Sir Martin Roth and Sir Aaron Klug

 

1994-1997 MRC Special Project Grant

The Cambridge Brain Bank's Contribution to Clinical/Epidemiological Studies of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

J Xuereb and C M Wischik

1994-1997 Medical Research Council

Molecular substrates of cognitive impairment in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease C M Wischik,

C R Harrington and J H Xuereb

 

1994-1997 Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellowship - C R Harrington

1995-1996 Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority

Genetic factors predisposing to dementia: a candidate gene approach

D C Rubinsztein, C E Brayne and D Robinson

1997-1998 British Council Joint Research Programme in Progressive Degenerative Diseases

Study of the full length and truncated soluble forms of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in normal and Alzheimer human nervous tissue

CM Wischik and D Vassilacopoulou

 

Jun 2010 - Jun 2011 Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust

Investigating the Significance of a New Biomarker for Dementia: TDP-43

Dr Hannah Keage, Sally Hunter

 

2006 to the present

National Institute of Health Research Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN) - East Anglia

CC75C Brain Donor Collection

C Brayne, J Fleming, S Hunter and J Zhao

 

Other

We are grateful for continuing support from the Addenbrooke's Hospital Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund

Charitable donations (Sister Angela O'Sullivan, Addenbrooke's Brain Bank)

We also wish to acknowledge a grant from Pfizer Limited for sponsoring the attendance of CC75C members at the IVth European Congress of Gerontology in Berlin, 7-11 July 1999.