Our Team
Our team of researchers and coordinators brings research on the diseases underlying dementia to every part of Greater Manchester
Clinical Director
The clinical director of the centre is Dr. Ross Dunne, a later life psychiatrist and dementia specialist working in GMMH. Dr. Dunne has 16 years experience working on clinical trials with older people, and has been Principal Investigator or Chief Investigator on over 25 industry studies in dementia.
Meet the team
We are based in central Manchester, close to the Royal Infirmary, but carry out research at North Manchester General Hospital too. We make every effort to bring studies to care homes and other sites research has not been traditionally conducted.
Dr. Ross Dunne
Dr. Dunne is originally from Dublin, and trained in Medicine in Trinity College Dublin and in Psychiatry in Dublin and Cambridge. He took up a Consultant post in Manchester in 2015. He has been Director of the Dementia Research Centre since 2018.
Saliha Ahmed MA
Saliha is one of our Assistant Clinical Research Practitioners .From Lancashire, with family roots in Pakistan she has a BSc. in Psychology from Manchester and an MA. in Sociology. Saliha wants to encourage more South Asians to participate in dementia and mental health research.
Lewis Harpin RMN
Lewis is from Lancashire originally, and trained as a psychiatric nurse. He has been in the NHS for over 20 years and involved in dementia and neurodegeneration research in Manchester for over 10 years. He is an experienced rater, for both quantitative and qualitative studies and leads the local rater training programme.
Dr. Helen Martin
Dr. Martin is from Northern Ireland originally and has worked as a GP in Manchester for more than 20 years. She has always been interested in the care of people with dementia and frailty. Clinically, she works predominantly in care homes and she is a physician-Investigator and rater on many of our clinical trials.
Leanne Howieson BSc.
Leanne is a Clinical Trial Coordinator and clinical rater at the Dementia Research Centre. She is from Manchester and has a BSc in Applied Psychology and a PG cert in Primary Care Mental Health Practice. She has worked in research for over 6 years and has experience working in the areas of oncology, mental health, and dementia.
Rabbea Uddin
Iman Hussein BSc.
Sheneil Goodman
Dr. Tobias Langheinrich
Tobias is a consultant neurologist at the Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. He has a special interest in neurodegenerative disorders and idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) with specialist clinics in the Cerebral Function Unit (CFU) and Salford Royal Hospital. He is a Principal Investigator for the DF Phenotyping study, recruiting through GMDRC.
WHERE WE WORK
NIHR Manchester CRF
The Clinical Research Facility on Grafton Street in central Manchester is where we conduct many of our trials of disease modifying agents in Alzheimer's and other diseases.
The Therapy Hub
The Therapy Hub on Daisy Bank Road is where we do some of our assesements.
Park House
Park House, at North Manchester General Hospital is the site for some of our studies.
OUR COLLABORATORS
The Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre is a hub for neuroscience in the University of Manchester,
The North West Research Delivery Network (RDN) helps fund and run many of our studies.
The University of Manchester provides us with links to basic scientists working on new treatments.
The NIHR Dementia Translational Research Collaboration (Dementia TRC) comprises a group of research active dementia themes within the national network of NIHR Biomedical Research Centres, along with CRFs and members of the devolved nations.
Join the team
If you are a researcher or carer, or a person living with dementia, and you would like to help us with new research, please let us know.