Welcome
Welcome!
The EPAD project is nearing its halfway mark and looking back I am happy to see how far we have come since we kicked-off in Paris almost 2.5 years ago. The EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS) has been recruiting for almost a year and with the engagement of all the Trial Delivery Centres (TDCs) and the recent installment of the LCS study management team we are ready to expand the LCS with new sites and boost recruitment aiming for 1,000 research participants by the end of the year. At the same time, we have been hard at work developing the EPAD proof-of-concept platform and hopefully will start testing the first intervention(s) around summer 2018. In the meantime, EPAD’s sister project AMYPAD is fully up and running and should allow access to PET amyloid imaging for a large group of LCS research participants by the end of the year. For more news on AMYPAD, please visit http://www.amypad.eu/
In this issue, we present you the story behind the EPAD animation movies, EPAD’s role in driving the IMI AD Platform towards more EU collaboration in developing a preventive treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, and you can learn more about two fellow EPADistas, Cindy Birck and Andy Satlin.
Finally, I hope to see you all at the EPAD General Assembly meeting from 15-17 May in Stockholm. Together with the organizing team from the Karolinska Institute (Miia, Susanna, Stefan) and with the kind support from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co and H. Lundbeck A/S we have put together an exciting and interactive meeting that will bring you up to speed on all the latest developments in EPAD. For those of you joining us in Stockholm, be sure not to miss the first session...
This electronic newsletter will be published quarterly and be accessible via the EPAD website (www.epad.org) and inform the Alzheimer’s community on EPAD’s main achievements, upcoming events as well as allow you to meet the scientists who make it all happen.
We hope you enjoy this issue of the EPAD newsletter! Happy Reading!
Serge Van der Geyten
EPAD Coordinator