Professor Gordon Wilcock

Gordon Wilcock moved back to Oxford in 2006 from Bristol, where he was Professor of Care of the Elderly and established the Bristol Dementia Research Group, which made an important contribution to the development of existing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease.  As Director of OPTIMA he is contributing to the future strategy of the group and the research output, including the exploration of biomarkers in the OPTIMA cohort.  Plans involve developing and expanding the infrastructure of OPTIMA, concentrating primarily on the treatment and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.  He has created an integrated Dementia Research Centre within the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, which has brought together all the clinically orientated research groups: OPTIMA, Biomedical Research Centre Dementia programme , Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group and the Thames Valley DeNDRoN group