Canada and UK to share data for dementia research

Canada and the UK have signed a memorandum of understanding for sharing data from large population studies to create an international resource for dementia research. The Medical Research Council's Dementia Platform UK and the recently established Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) will contribute to a big data pool for use by dementia researchers to be used to better understand, treat and prevent dementia. The CCNA was created in 2014 and brings together 360 researchers in national teams from molecular genetics to health systems delivery....