Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity. We fund world class studies aimed at building understanding of the diseases that cause dementia, improving our ability to diagnose these diseases, finding ways to reduce risk and developing life-changing new treatments.

Page last reviewed: 29/11/22

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2022

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK 2022

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2022

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2022

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2022

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2022

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2019

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Accounts 2019

This graph shows the income and activity of Alzheimer’s Research UK since 2008/9 from our annual accounts.

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Accounts 2019
For 2016/17, the figures for total charitable spend and total research funding do not include funds earmarked for future work at the UK DRI.

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2018

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK Annual Review 2019

This graph shows the different types of research that Alzheimer’s Research UK funds and how this has changed in recent years. A greater proportion of our funding now focuses on translating discoveries about the biology of the diseases that cause dementia towards developing much-needed new treatments for the condition.

Source: Alzheimer’s Research UK; Research spend analysis