My brother Andrew was a gregarious man who lived life to the full. His main interests were animals, notably he kept tropical and marine fish, Fantasy Role Playing and Cider.

Andrew's A level grades meant he was unable to follow his chosen career as a veterinary surgeon and instead, having gained a degree in Genetics from UCL, he became a medical research scientist. 

His varied career saw him initially working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on Muscular Dystrophy research. He then moved to the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in Hammersmith where he supported research on Motor Neurone Disease. Finally he made the last move of his unfortunately short medical research career when in 1995 he moved to Cambridgeshire to work on the human genome project at the Sanger Centre.   

I say Andrew's research career was short because very sadly Andrew was blighted by a very rare genetic form of early onset dementia, first diagnosed in 2006. The real irony of his dementia is that the research at the Sanger Centre was central to that diagnosis.

After  more than 20 years fighting his dementia, the last 15 of those in a specialist care home, Andrew is at last Free and at peace, having passed away on 25th November 2022. 

Psalm 18:28  “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.”

Donations in Andrews memory to support further research into Dementia are appreciated through this page.

Thank you.