Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative
Enabling data-driven research in neurodegeneration
and brain health
Advancing data-driven Alzheimer's research
Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), the University of Edinburgh, Public Health Scotland and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have partnered to transform research on neurodegeneration and brain health.
The partner institutions launched a two-year pilot to make some of the UK’s most comprehensive routine health imaging data more findable and accessible for dementia research projects both within the UK and internationally.
As part of the pilot, Moorfields is leading further development of the AlzEye Dataset, using INSIGHT's infrastructure and data curation capability. AlzEye contains over six million routinely collected retinal images linked to thousands of NHS hospital records, including over 13,000 dementia cases.