Biologist Bart de Strooper is one of the world's leading experts on dementia. He has created mice with 100,000 human neurons in the brain to accelerate the search for drugs against dementia.

De Strooper: “If we don't get a treatment for Alzheimer's, it will be a global disaster’ The German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer described the first case of the disease that bears his name in 1906.. An international consortium has estimated that the number of people with dementia will triple in the next quarter century.