We are pleased that for the first time during our project, we exhibited the EPAD study at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) held on 22-26 July. With its neat white walls and signature green colours, the EPAD booth at the start of the exhibition area at this year’s record size AAIC in Chicago stood…
What is your current role in EPAD? I have recently joined the executive committee of EPAD. The executive committee is suggested to follow up on the project to see if everything is performed as planned and help coordinate between different ongoing activities. As well, it is a group that can react to new developments e.g.…
What is your current role in EPAD? I am a member of Work Package 7 focusing on business and sustainability for the EPAD project. We are conducting analysis pertaining to markets, stakeholders, incentive, IP and financial strategy. Ultimately, we are collaborating with the entire consortium to create a feasible business plan for the EPAD machine.…
We are delighted to announce that 80 new research participants were enrolled in the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS) in June. We were thus able to continue the positive trend of increasing recruitment on a monthly basis, as it made June our most successful month to date exceeding the 75 research participants enrolled in May and the…
The scientific director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Research Program at the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center, José Luis Molinuevo, presented in Japan the EPAD project, in two conferences about European research initiatives on Alzheimer’s disease Prevention. On July 2nd, he participated in a session on Alzheimer’s disease at the 18th World Congress of Basic and Clinical…
The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia Consortium (EPAD) seeks a Communications and Events Officer (part-time: 18.75 hours/50% FTE). The post is for a fixed-term of 1 year based at the Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital in Oxford (UK). The post holder will support the delivery of EPAD’s communications strategy, disseminate high quality communications through a…
On 7 June, the Gerontopole of Toulouse University Hospital organised a concert honouring Claude Nougaro for the EPAD research participants in Toulouse (France). It was a great success with more than 200 attendees. The EPAD study recruited its first French research participant in September 2016 via the Gerontopole of Toulouse University Hospital. It was the first…
We are delighted to announce that 75 new research participants were enrolled in the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS) in May. This made May our most successful month to date as it continued the positive trend in recruitment of research participants by exceeding the 73 research participants enrolled in April and the 66 in March.…
This year, the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) general assembly meeting was held in Amsterdam, under the banner “How to assure sustainability”. It was hosted by VU University Medical Center (VUmc) Amsterdam and kindly sponsored by VUmc, Amgen, Novartis and Janssen. The meeting provided a chance to gather everyone from across many different…
Our sister project, Amyloid imaging to prevent Alzheimer’s disease (AMYPAD), which began its activities on October 2016, has recently enrolled its first research participant. The first participant was recruited in Geneva, Switzerland, within the diagnostic and patient management sub-study (DMPS) of the AMYPAD project. In this clinical study, researchers aim to include subjects suspected of possible…
