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Cygnus joins Dementias Platform UK
Cygnus joins Dementias Platform UK.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 9943Z IXICO plc 02 June 2016 \n\n \nIXICO announces that its real world digital data collection study, project Cygnus, has joined Dementias Platform UK, and has initiated all sites and enrolled first subjects\n \n \n2 June 2016, IXICO plc (Ticker: IXI) ('IXICO' or the 'Company'), the brain health company, is pleased to announce that Cygnus, a real world digital data collection study from people with cognitive impairment and dementia, has joined the high profile Dementias Platform UK (DPUK).\nThe four NHS Trusts participating in the project have now initiated enrolment in the mehealth® digital technology platform which is being deployed for data collection and management. Consumer wearable devices containing accelerometers will also be deployed to collect information on sleep and activity. The Cygnus study aims to advance the development of digital healthcare in patients with cognitive impairment and dementia and their caregivers.\nBy joining Dementias Platform UK, Cygnus is now part of a high profile collaborative project that includes leading academic centres and pharmaceutical companies GSK, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. IXICO's mehealth® platform is being used for data collection from participating services and patients and their caregivers. The mehealth® digital technology platform formed part of the Optimal Medicine acquisition in December 2015.\nProfessor Derek Hill, Chief Executive of IXICO, commented: \n\"We believe digital technologies will improve the lives of both people with cognitive impairment and dementia and their families, potentially transforming how treatments are developed and delivered. The IXICO sponsored Cygnus project is now using such technologies in community memory services in the North of England. We are pleased our recently-acquired mehealth® platform is supporting this project in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies within the Dementias Platform UK.\"\nProfessor John Gallacher, Director of Dementias Platform UK commented:\n\"We are delighted that IXICO's Cygnus cohort is contributing data into the secure DPUK data portal. Not only does this support the open science vision of the Dementias Platform, but it transforms the way that industry and academic collaborations can be used to develop innovative treatments. W...