Alzheimer’s Research UK is Europe’s largest charity funder of dementia research. Worth £25,000 in research expenses with a £1,500 personal prize, the David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award aims to raise the profile of excellence in biomedical dementia research. The Award is judged by an external panel of prominent international researchers, who…
The European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA), granted by EuroScience since 2010, aims to inspire early stage researchers in all research areas to incorporate a European dimension and perspective into their research. Two awards are granted every two years to: a) a PhD candidate and b) a postdoctoral fellow. The 2020 call is open to early…
What is your current role in EPAD? I am the resident Data Scientist based at the University of Edinburgh and I work closely with the International Coordinator for EPAD work package 4. The work package 4 includes the Longitudinal Cohort Study, which involves collecting and managing all the datasets that are collected from different sources…
Lisa Vermunt (VUmc) and Delia Gheorghe (UOXF), our young researchers, have presented EPAD at the IMI Scientific Symposium in October. Lisa and Delia were happy to answer some of our questions! Here’s a chance to get know them and their work a bit better. What are your main tasks within the EPAD project? LV: My…
EPAD Academy webinars are held by world-class senior researchers on current topics in Alzheimer’s Dementia research for young researchers. Fourteen webinars have been scheduled for 2018. In order to promote young researchers’ involvement, the webinars are held exclusively for EPAD fellows. Nevertheless, the presentations, when approved by the speaker are uploaded on the EPAD YouTube…
The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) project launched in 2017 its EPAD Academy that is aiming to efficiently leverage EPAD resources to foster and develop academic research capacity and output in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) across Europe for maximum global impact. The EPAD Academy is first focusing on activities to support early career researchers. For…
The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) project launched in 2017 its EPAD Academy that is aiming to efficiently leverage EPAD resources to foster and develop academic research capacity and output in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) across Europe for maximum global impact. On January 16, the EPAD Academy held its first activity that is to propose…
On 15 June, the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) project announced the launch of its EPAD Academy that is aiming to efficiently leverage EPAD resources to foster and develop academic research capacity and output in AD across Europe for maximum global impact. It is expected to be a great space – To create the…
