Dr Alison Green is a clinical biochemist with over 30 years’ experience of working within the NHS and academia to develop and evaluate diagnostic tests for neurodegenerative diseases. She did her PhD at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London looking investigating the role of biomarkers in the diagnosis of dementia. After her PhD, Alison ran the international diagnostic service for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease within the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working at Scottish Brain Sciences where she is collaborating with Roche Diagnostics Ltd to evaluate the performance of newly emerging blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease.