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…
We are delighted to announce that April was the most successful month to date with 73 new research participants enrolled in the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study. We continued the positive trend in recruitment of research participants by exceeding the 66 research participants enrolled in March and the 53 in February. Congratulations are due to Université de Genève (Geneva,…
What is your current role in EPAD? I coordinate EPAD at the Edinburgh Trial Delivery Centre, working with a great team of research assistants, study doctors and research nurses to deliver the protocol. I oversee the daily running of the study in our TDC, making sure we have sufficient recruitment avenues to bring in new…
The first quarter of 2018 started with great intensity! We were busy working towards opening new sites and improving recruitment. Positive results of our work have begun to come out in a short time with specific progress achieved. First of all, we are delighted to have reached a big milestone in February 2018 when our…
What is your current role in EPAD? As a Data Scientist at Aridhia, I support the development and maintenance of the Analytical Database for the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study. IQVIA securely transfer the collated project data from their EDC platform (Medidata Rave) to our digital research platform (AnalytiXagility) on a regular basis. We transform the…
Dr Vanessa Raymont (pictured) is a senior researcher and consultant psychiatrist working in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and the Centre for Dementia Prevention at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a lead researcher for the EPAD project in Oxford. She was recently interviewed by Elder online magazine about assessing…
