Cath Mummery is a Professor of Neurology and consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She is chair of the NIHR Dementia Translational Research Collaboration, and Director of the NIHR UK Dementia Trials Network, building national trials networks for early phase clinical trials and working to accelerate and enhance dementia translational research in novel treatments. She is Head of Clinical Trials at the Dementia Research Centre at UCL. She has been chief investigator in over 20 early phase drug trials of potential disease modifying agents in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), genetic forms of AD and frontotemporal dementia.