Scottish Brain Sciences

17/12/2025

Here we grow again 📣🙌

Our Aberdeen site at ONE BioHub is expanding, and we’re looking for a Clinical Research Nurse to join the team.

Come be part of research that genuinely changes lives.

Click the link below or scan the QR code to apply!

https://bit.ly/49dBB3M

04/12/2025

Come and say hello us at the Aberdeen Health and Wellbeing Festival on Saturday 10 January.

The Scottish Brain Sciences team will be on stand 54 to talk about brain health and the clinical trial opportunities we have at our Aberdeen site.

The festival is held at The Beach Ballroom from 09:00 to 17:00 and tickets are FREE! There's over 60 exhibitors with opportunities to speak to health experts, try treatments and therapies and join activities.

Link to the website in the comments.

28/11/2025

Hollywood actor Chris Hemsworth has released a documentary which follows his father Craig, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease.

14/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our event at ONE BioHub in Aberdeen this morning.

It was an honour to have local participants, stakeholders and supporters in one room to showcase our growing clinical research site. We were also pleased that Richard Lochhead, Minister for Business and Employment, could join us. Look out for us on STV North!

The centre in Aberdeen is enabling people in and around north east Scotland concerned about their memory, as well as those living with Alzheimer’s disease, to participate in world-leading studies focused on the early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative conditions.

If you're interested in our research in Aberdeen, get in touch via our website (link in bio).

14/11/2025

Today we are celebrating the official opening of our clinical research site in Aberdeen. A special moment for our founder Craig Ritchie who grew up in the city.

The Evening Express and The Press and Journal featured the Scottish Brain Sciences story ahead of today's event. Thank you to the people in Aberdeen who have been in touch with us to an express an interest in taking part in our research since seeing the story🥰

Research centre will open within the £40 million One BioHub tomorrow.

06/11/2025

New research opportunities at Scottish Brain Sciences

Are you or a loved one living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease?

We’re looking for volunteers aged 50–85 who can travel to Edinburgh and Aberdeen to take part in cutting-edge clinical trials that aim to improve dementia care and treatment. If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with MCI or Alzheimer’s disease within the past six months, our friendly research team would love to hear from you.

Why take part?

-Be part of pioneering research with a world-leading team focused on patient safety

-Access specialist advice and memory assessments at no cost

-Help shape the future of dementia treatment for generations to come

Get in touch to book your research consultation today — there’s no obligation to join a trial, and participation is always free.

Complete the contact form on our website - link in bio

07/10/2025

💻🧠 Accelerating Alzheimer’s Research: Insights and updates from Scottish Brain Sciences for professionals supporting people living with Alzheimer’s

We’re delighted to invite Health and Social Care professionals - and anyone working to support people living with Alzheimer’s - to join our October webinar, Accelerating Alzheimer’s Research: Insights and updates from Scottish Brain Sciences.

Hosted by Anna Borthwick, SBS Director of Engagement, with panellists Dr Sarah Gregory (Principal Investigator) and Dr Miles Welstead (Head of Cognitive Sciences), this one-hour session will explore:

• The latest updates from our Alzheimer’s research programmes
• Insights on new diagnosis and treatment access in Scotland
• How cognitive sciences are driving early detection and prevention

There will also be time for Q&A, so you can put your questions directly to our panel.

📅 Monday 27 October
🕛 12 noon
💻 Zoom

Spaces for the live webinar are limited, so early registration is encouraged.

👉 Register via Eventbrite: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iAP2YrvJSyeYBCXt98UmCg

30/09/2025

Roy and Kirsty, thank you for sharing your journey on the BBC. Your openness and courage are inspiring, and we’re so grateful you chose to take part in research with us at Scottish Brain Sciences.

It’s stories like yours that remind us every day why this work matters. 💙

Four people are the first in the world to have been enrolled in an early-stage drug trial in Edinburgh.

30/09/2025

📣At Scottish Brain Sciences, we were proud to be the first site worldwide to recruit and dose in Therini Bio’s Phase 1b trial (THN-391) - a landmark step forward in Alzheimer’s research.

A BBC Scotland team recently visited our Edinburgh site to document the journey of Roy, one of our first participants, and his wife, Kirsty, who kindly shared their experience of living well with Alzheimer's disease and joining the trial.

❤ Kirsty captured the impact of taking part:
“This gives you hope. You are doing something, rather than sitting allowing this illness to just happen. It gives you purpose.”

It is heartening to see their story shared on a national stage, highlighting the difference clinical research can make for families facing Alzheimer’s.

Look out for the story on BBC Reporting Scotland throughout the day, listen on BBC sounds or read the online article (links in comments)

Roy’s Race against dementia BBC Scotland News

18/09/2025

👉 👋Come meet some of the SBS team at the Alzheimer Scotland Conference this Monday, 22nd September!

You’ll find us at Stand 17 in the marketplace (we're easy to spot… right next to Babs the Brain, Alzheimer Scotland's newest giant inflatable brain!)🧠

We’d love to chat about our work at Scottish Brain Sciences and how together we can move closer to better brain health for all. 💜

17/09/2025

Delighted to share that our Founder and CEO, Professor Craig Ritchie, recently joined Roche and Diagnostics UK & Ireland for their global Alzheimer’s research summit (1–5 September), delivering a keynote address across three cities - Sydney, Seoul, and Shanghai.

The event brought together leading experts to share the latest breakthroughs in early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

At SBS, partnerships like this are key to driving forward innovation in brain health. With full-service clinical research centres, in-house labs, and access to MRI and advanced imaging, we’re building one of the world’s largest biobanks of genetic, blood, and imaging data - and working with global leaders like Roche - to turn research into real-world impact. 🧠 🔬 🧬

Huge thanks to Scottish Development International for facilitating Craig's visit to Shanghai and for their ongoing support. 👏

15/09/2025

We’ve joined forces with Aberdeen FC Women to take on Alzheimer’s. 🧠⚽️❤️
Watch their message and see how you can help change the future of brain health.

https://youtube.com/shorts/5GBTWgyW8dU

Aberdeen Football Club

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