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Academic
Professor Clive Ballard
Professor of Age-Related Diseases at the University of Exeter Medical School
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press citations on 1 topic since 5 Jan 2026 · last quoted 6 May 2026
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Professor Clive Ballard: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of Age-Related Diseases at the University of Exeter Medical School
- Quoted on
- Dementia
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 6 May 2026
- First quoted
- 5 Jan 2026
04 The signal · where Professor Clive Ballard sits on dementia
Ranked 32= of 462 voices quoted in the press on dementia, level with 45 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1Eric SchmidtAcademicResearch Associate Professor (Laboratory of Molecular Biology); also named as scientific reviewer of ALZinfo.org articles for the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation, The Rockefeller University (New York); reviewer credit given as Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University10
- 2Hilary Evans-Newton CBESector leaderChief Executive, Alzheimer's Research UK8
- 3Prof Jonathan SchottAcademicProfessor of Neurology, Dementia Research Centre; Chief Medical Officer, Alzheimer's Research UK, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology7
- 32=Dr Rebecca CastertonAcademicSenior Researcher at the UK Dementia Research Institute at King's and first author on the paper2
- 32=Dr Anya TopiwalaClinicianSenior Clinical Researcher at Oxford Population Health2
- 32=Professor Clive BallardAcademicProfessor of Age-Related Diseases at the University of Exeter Medical School2
- 32=Dr Jeffrey CummingsAcademicworld-leading dementia researcher2
- 32=Prof Bart De StrooperAcademicProfessor in dementia studies in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, and Founding Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute2
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05 On the record · press
What Professor Clive Ballard has said
By outlet · linked articles
- news.exeter.ac.uk2
Where Professor Clive Ballard has been quoted
- 01At-home blood test and brain testing could screen people for dementia risknews.exeter.ac.uk · 6 May 2026
- 02International research breakthrough for remote Alzheimer’s testingnews.exeter.ac.uk · 5 Jan 2026
Verbatim
“Almost a million people in the UK are estimated to have dementia, yet at the moment, only one in a thousand people with the earliest signs of brain decline receives a specialist evaluation. Our approach of combining our robust cognitive testing with measuring proteins via a postal blood test could provide a straightforward, efficient and cost-effective method to reach large numbers of people in the community who would not otherwise be prioritised for the next steps of diagnosis or support and to optimise the clinical pathway to enable early detection of those at highest risk.”
“Our ongoing work will determine whether this could also be a valuable way of identifying people in the community who would benefit from more detailed diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease.”
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