§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the President of the Board of Trade (1) if he will list the studies currently funded by the Medical Research Council into Alzheimer's disease and the amounts of money awarded for each study; and if he will make a statement; [16901]
(2) if he will make a statement on his Department's funding for research into Alzheimer's disease. [16900]
§ Mr. Ian TaylorThe DTI's support for research into Alzheimer's disease is funded through the research councils from the science budget.
Medical Research Council funding of research into Alzheimer's disease was £1.376 million in 1994–95, the last financial year for which complete information is available. The various research projects are listed, together with the corresponding amount of money:
1. Research carried out at MRC establishments:
- MRC environmental epidemiology unit: Alzheimer's disease in relation to drinking water—£28,000.
- MRC laboratory of molecular biology: the molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease—£0536,000.
- MRC neurochemical pathology unit:
- Aluminium as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease—£320,00.
- Human brain peptidases involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease—£120,000.
- Transgenic models of cerebral amyloid deposition—£214,000.
- A neuropsychological comparison of Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease—£38,000.
2. Grunt funded research:
- Ninewells hospital, Dundee—department of clinical pharmacology: the glycobiology of the amyloid precursor protein—£35,000.
- St. Mary's hospital, London: transgenesis as a mechanism to develop animal models of human disease—£22,000.
436 - Institute of Psychiatry, London:
- A study of the association between Apo E e4 and Alzheimer's disease in a cohort of older hypertensive subjects—£27,000.
- Modelling of Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice—£49,000.
- University of Cambridge—department of experimental psychology: immunotoxic lesions of primate cholinergic projections—£2,000.
- University of Sussex: development of neuronal cell lines from normal and Alzheimer's disease patients; £3,000.
In addition, the MRC estimates that in 1994–95, a further £2.54 million was spent on research which was of some relevance to Alzheimer's disease.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is also funding one research project related to Alzheimer's disease.
Babraham Institute: Candidate neuronal genes in cognition and ageing—£95,250 over three years.Three other research councils, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council are also funding some research which is, or may prove to be, of relevance to Alzheimer's disease.