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EPAD Academy

To efficiently leverage EPAD resources to foster and develop academic research capacity and output in AD across Europe for maximum global impact


  • I hope that the EPAD Academy will become a close circle of researchers who will be providing support to nourish a new generation of academics in the field of dementia.

    Stina Saunders
    EPAD Fellow
  • The EPAD fellows will be pivotal in the crafting of the future of AD research and can take the baton for 2020 – 2040.

    Prof Craig Ritchie
    EPAD Co-coordinator and Professor of the Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh

Like many other public-private partnerships, EPAD gathers an amazing range of research expertise and experience. Most academic partners usually involve young researchers as they build their teams for their assigned tasks. However, the relationship of these early career researchers with the project itself is often very asymmetrical – they usually contribute in very significant ways to the project’s success (and some even become true project champions), but are typically isolated in ‘niches’ pertaining to their respective specific tasks and research areas, therefore benefitting relatively little from being exposed to such a unique world-class environment. The concept of the EPAD Academy originated from a realisation that EPAD was an ideal framework for young researchers (‘EPAD Fellows’) to grow professionally, expand their views, enhance multidisciplinary perspectives and multiply the impact on their future careers – effectively helping to build the next generation of thought leaders in Alzheimer’s research. This however rarely happens organically; it would require a focused effort to understand and fulfil the needs of young researchers, leveraging the resources that the project creates during its development for maximum effect.

The EPAD Academy activities are therefore expected not only to ensure proper exposure of young researchers to the scientific richness of the project and different environments outside their own labs, but also to provide them with training, help them to publish, design new research projects, use project data, build their networks, think outside the box, etc. Expanding the horizons of our EPAD Fellows will surely contribute to faster and better research on Alzheimer’s Dementia in the next decade.



Team


  • Miia Kivipelto, KI (Chair)
  • Carlos Díaz, SYNAPSE (Coordinator)
  • Craig Ritchie, UEDIN
  • Serge van der Geyten, JANSSEN
  • Stefan Borg, KI
  • Cindy Birck, AE
  • Sandra Pla, SYNAPSE
  • Iva Knezevic, SYNAPSE


Mission


  • To help create the next generation of Alzheimer’s Dementia researchers and thought leaders, by creating and facilitating opportunities for junior researchers’ career advancement
  • To create fair and efficient procedures for EPAD and non-EPAD research teams to access EPAD data, samples and research participants with the objective of deepening the understanding of Alzheimer’s Dementia onset and progression, and the factors contributing to underlying processes.
  • To support the EPAD academic output in terms of scientific publications, participation in conferences and development of guidelines and studies, and to maximise their visibility and impact.



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Jun152017

EPAD project launches its Academy

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…

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2017-06-15EPAD Academy, NewsBy EPAD Administrator3
Jan162018

EPAD Academy has officially started its first activity

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…

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2018-01-16EPAD Academy, NewsBy EPAD Administrator3
Sep242018

The first EPAD Academy short exchange program has started

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…

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2018-09-24EPAD AcademyBy EPAD Administrator3
Jan152019

EPAD Academy Webinars

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…

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2019-01-15EPAD AcademyBy Aridhia Administrator
Jan152019

Interview with the fellows: Lisa Vermunt and Delia Gheorghe

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…

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2019-01-15EPAD AcademyBy Aridhia Administrator
Jan242019

Interview with Sammy Danso

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…

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2019-01-24EPAD Academy, NewsBy EPAD Administrator3
Latest Academy News
  • Interview with Sammy Danso
    2019-01-24
  • Interview with the fellows: Lisa Vermunt and Delia Gheorghe
    2019-01-15
  • EPAD Academy Webinars
    2019-01-15
  • The first EPAD Academy short exchange program has started
    2018-09-24
  • EPAD Academy has officially started its first activity
    2018-01-16
What’s new

The EPAD Academy programme for short-term exchanges is ready to go. EASP is a short-term exchange programme, interdisciplinary and rotational, between the EPAD Consortium Partners, established and supported by the EPAD Academy. Interested? Write to us at academy@ep-ad.org.

Open vacancies

Alzheimer Europe is looking to fill two Luxembourg-based positions! For more info check their website.

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José Luis Molinuevo (@fpmaragall) mentioned @IMI_EPAD in this spanish report published in the newspaper El País. "We participate in the EPAD project, a consortium between the academic and the private sector to design more efficient Phase II trials" elpais.com/elpais/2019/02… twitter.com/fpmaragall/sta…

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.@IMI_EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study recruitment Update ⤵️ We currently have 21 European sites enrolling and 1450 research participants screened. @IMI_JU @EFPIA @EU_H2020

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.@IMI_JU published the first newsletter of the year. Click here to read it: bit.ly/2UlBZE0 twitter.com/IMI_JU/status/…

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10:20 am · 2019-02-07
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The @IMI_EPAD center in @NHSGrampian shared with us their tips and tricks to run the EPAD LCS efficiently. Don’t miss the interview: bit.ly/2RKYJ3v twitter.com/IMI_EPAD/statu…

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#EPADBerlin19 - Practical scenario about PoC recruitment between a study staff member and a research participant. Remarkable example of an initial conversation to let the participant know he is eligible and ask if he would like to take part in the PoC. pic.twitter.com/cNe2mSphbW

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