Clive is a joint theme lead for our Neurodegeneration research. He is a psychiatrist driven to study dementia after witnessing the poor conditions in which people with dementia were cared for. He has led or co-authored well over 600 research papers and attracted grant income in excess of £150m over his research career, and has won several awards including the Weston Brain Institute Outstanding Achievement Award. Clive has led more dementia and cognitive health trials than anyone else in Europe over the last decade. He was featured in the Lancet Neurology for his achievements.

His main research specialisms are drug discovery, dementia prevention and improving care for people with dementia in residential homes. He is also an expert in Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, and is an advocate of better prescribing and treatment pathways to improve outcomes for individuals. Before joining Exeter, Clive held directorship roles at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry and at the Alzheimer’s Society. He was pivotal in the successful campaign to overturn a NICE decision and make anti-dementia drugs available for people with dementia.

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean for Medicine, he focused on expanding the University of Exeter's College of Medicine and Health (additional places for Medical Students, Nursing and Neuroscience Programmes and broadened PGT offering) and raising its profile through collaboration across the board with other highly esteemed scientists and institutions. He has also focused strongly on obtaining philanthropic support for the College such as the Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre at the RD&E.

Clive continues to maintain his busy research portfolio, focusing especially on Commercial Clinical Trial opportunities and publishing prolifically in high-ranking journals.

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Research projects that Clive has been involved in

Analysis of extracellular vesicle cargo as biomarkers to differentiate Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

Neurodegeneration

Understanding and tracking changes in the brain during neurodegeneration to help improve treatments

Identification of novel therapeutic targets for TDP-43 proteinopathies

Neurodegeneration

Improving therapies for neurodegenerative diseases

Developing a Novel Genomic Biomarker for the Early Detection of Neurodegeneration

Neurodegeneration

Improving early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease

Platform for Online Recruitment, Triage and Assessment for Brain Health Research (Brain Health PORTAL)

Neurodegeneration

Creating a new digital resource for brain health research in adults

The VITAL Study

Neurodegeneration

Assessing at-home blood testing to help detect Alzheimer’s and related diseases in older adults.

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News involving Clive

Top academics join University of Exeter as part of neuroscience expansion

  • February 6th 2024
Leading neuroscientists will soon be joining our team of world-leading Neurodegeneration researchers.

Digital training programme improves quality of life for care residents with dementia – even during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • December 20th 2023
Collaborative research across the NIHR leads to improved quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care.

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