Our next online event will focus on one of the research studies we have funded through our grants programme. It will be hosted by our Chief Executive Jacqui Cannon and will be recorded for viewing afterwards.

We will be joined by Dr Jay Amin, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, to talk about his research on what happens to the immune system when someone is living with Lewy body dementia. Papers on this research were recently published in two respected academic journals.

About Dr Jay Amin

Dr Amin is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry of Older Age within Medicine at the University of Southampton. His research focus is on the role of inflammation in Dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. He is principal investigator for several commercial and non-commercial clinical trials in dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment at the Memory Assessment and Research Centre in Southampton.

Dr Amin graduated from medical school at Southampton in 2007 and completed his foundation programme training within Wessex. He undertook a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship between 2009-2012, following which he was awarded an Alzheimer’s Research UK Clinical Research Fellowship. His PhD projects explored the role of inflammation in Dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease, using both patient cohorts and post-mortem human brain tissue. Dr Amin joined the specialist medical register for Old Age Psychiatry after completing his higher clinical training in 2018.

In 2019 Dr Amin was appointed to his current role as Associate Professor in Psychiatry of Older Age for the University of Southampton. He is also an honorary consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, where he conducts memory clinics including providing a tertiary service for people who may have Dementia with Lewy bodies or Parkinson’s disease dementia.