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…
DetailsWe are writing to you with the latest news of the EPAD project. What will the world be like once the COVID-19 pandemic is over? We can all speculate, formulate, hypothesise, hope and fear – we will all have our personal crystal balls – some cloudy, some clearer, some ignored and some stared into constantly…
DetailsThe EPAD consortium wishes to congratulate Lisa Vermunt and Lucy Stirland, two EPAD fellows, on successfully defending their PhD thesis in March 2020. It was two great days and we are proud of their contributions and all the hard work that Lisa and Lucy have put in – very well deserved! We wish them both…
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 SPEAR (Study of Participant Experience of Alzheimer’s disease Research) study was carried out as part of EPAD’s Work Package on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the project (ELSI). In the early stages of EPAD, the ELSI team pointed to the extent and intensity of tests and measurements deemed necessary to provide a…
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