Theme Co-Lead for Dementia, Mental Health and Neurodegeneration
Professor John-Paul Taylor the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre lead for dementia. He is an academic old age psychiatrist and Honorary Consultant at Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Taylor has a major clinical research focus on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, in particular Lewy body dementia and he is the Chief Investigator for the NIHR HTA COBALT international trial which is investigating the benefits of memantine as an add-on therapy to cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia.
More recently, he has been appointed as one of the deputy Chairs for the national Dementia Translational Research Collaboration which has the ambition to expand the UK’s capacity to deliver high quality early phase clinical trials in dementia and neurodegeneration. Clinically he leads a specialist dementia clinic in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
Roles
Professor of Translational Dementia Research, Newcastle University Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Trust