Hugh Perry proposed splitting the £1million between a study investigating how infections accelerate the progress of Alzheimer's and a study into the ways in information about illness is signalled between the blood and the brain.

Hugh Perry is Professor of Experimental Neuropathology at the University of Southampton and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Running time: 2 min 8 s

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