A vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease. It sounds amazing, even fantastical – but we are a lot closer to this goal than you might think. As well as providing a new and innovative therapeutic option for a disease that has been notoriously difficult to treat, vaccination could unlock the door to that most elusive of objectives: prevention. We’ve dived into the latest science and spoken to an expert at the cutting edge of this field to bring you the lowdown on where this research is headed, with the aim of answering the all-important question, “Just how close are we to a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease?”