ABSTRACT: Introduction: It is a challenge to find participants for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) prevention trials within a short period of time. The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia Registry (EPAD) aims to facilitate recruitment by preselecting subjects from ongoing cohort studies. This article introduces this novel approach. Methods: A virtual registry, with access to risk factors…
DetailsThe mathematical modelling of disease progression is an essential part of several projects of the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI), namely AETIONOMY, EPAD, RADAR-AD; and it is subject of an entire work package in the European H2020 project VirtualBrainCloud. The joint interest in mathematical modelling of disease progression prompted us to come together for a first…
DetailsThe first quarter of 2016 started with great intensity! We were busy working towards recruiting the very first research participant into our study and should reach this important milestone early next month. A serious engagement of the entire EPAD family was also needed for the mandatory scientific and financial progress report to the Innovative…
DetailsOn 3rd November, we presented the first analysis of the EPAD data at CTAD (Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease) in Boston, USA. This analysis was primarily illustrative as did not come from the first data wave officially to be released when we have full baseline data from our first 500 research participants (due early…
DetailsThis is a unique opportunity for a future clinical academic neuroradiologist to gain research training experience while working on the neuroimaging data in the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia, EPAD research programme. http://ep-ad.org You will be based in a world-leading Academic Neuroradiology Department (under Professor Joanna Wardlaw), partnering with the Centre for Dementia Prevention (CDP)…
DetailsOur project leader Professor Craig Ritchie (pictured) is the new Chair of the Scottish Dementia Research Consortium (SDRC). SDRC is a membership based organisation which aims to support the development and expansion of high quality, co-ordinated, collaborative dementia research throughout Scotland. On 29 November, Alzheimer Scotland published an article on its website entitled “Help shape…
DetailsThe Neuronet (Efficiently Networking European Neurodegeneration Research) communication team is proud to announce the launch of the official project website: http://imi-neuronet.org/ Neuronet is a three-year coordination and support action that kicked off in March 2019. The aim of Neuronet is to set up an efficient platform to boost collaboration across research projects focusing on neurodegenerative…
DetailsThe European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD), a major Europe-wide initiative aiming to improve the understanding of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, has announced the release of its first wave of data as part of its EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study. The project is one of the world leading dementia prevention studies involving 39 organisations.…
DetailsIn October 2018, two articles about the EPAD project were published. On 29 October, the journal Dementia published an article entitled “Research participants as collaborators: Background, experience and policies from the PREVENT Dementia and EPAD programmes”. The article led by Sarah Gregory from the University of Edinburgh (UK) described how the PREVENT Dementia panel forms…
DetailsThe EPAD project, originally scheduled to end in December 2019, has been extended. We are pleased to share that IMI has officially approved our request for a 6-month no-cost extension to the project, setting the end date in June 2020. This extension will allow the delivery of the start of the first EPAD Proof of…
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