BARNSLEY-BORN doctor Selina Wray has been granted more than £400,000 of new funding to continue her groundbreaking stem cell study to develop new treatments for dementia.

Dr Wray, who works at University College London, is investigating how a protein that builds up in the brain in Alzheimer’s causes damage to brain cells and leads to the devastating symptoms of the disease.

The funding has been awarded by Alzheimer’s Research UK - which has previously supported Dr Wray’s research earlier in her career - and was announced on World Alzheimer’s Day on Wednesday.

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