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Mar282018

WP3 EPAD Registry paper in Alzheimer’s & Dementia

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…

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2018-03-28News
Apr302019

Workshop on disease progression modelling held in Bonn

The 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…

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2019-04-30News
Apr282016

Working Together towards the Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS) Start-up!

  The 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…

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2016-04-28News
Nov32017

What we learnt from first analysis of EPAD LCS Data?

  On 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…

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2017-11-03News
Jul312020

Welcome to the July issue of the EPAD newsletter

We 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…

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2020-07-31News
Apr202020

Two EPAD Fellows successfully defended their PhD thesis

The 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…

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2020-04-20EPAD Academy, News
May132016

The University of Edinburgh is looking for an EPAD Neuroradiology Clinical Research Fellow

This 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)…

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2016-05-13News
Nov292017

The Scottish Dementia Research Consortium is looking for members

Our 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…

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2017-11-29News
Jul312019

The Neuronet Coordination and Support Action on neurodegeneration research launches its website

The 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…

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2019-07-31News
Jul12020

The final report with the SPEAR findings is now available

The 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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2020-07-01News
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We would like to thank all our followers! A massive thanks also goes to our research participants & members for all their support! Looking back on the years of the @IMI_EPAD project, here's key pictures took at major events. Have a safe & Happy New Year! youtu.be/FeYsOBOhCeo

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The videos from #30AEC are online! Check out the @IMI_EPAD presentations on #data sharing by @rodrigobarnes (@aridhia) & Colin Veal (@uniofleicester). Thanks @IMI2_NEURONET and @AlzheimerEurope for giving us the opportunity to present our work. imi-neuronet.org/2020-virtual… twitter.com/IMI2_NEURONET/…

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8:43 am · 2021-01-15
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Authors investigated #data from nine studies, including @IMI_EPAD, comprising a total of 60,004 assessed participants. If you want to explore the #Alzheimer's disease data landscape, visit adata.scai.fraunhofer.de @BirkenbihlC @ApitiusHofmann @ddomingof @Simon_Lovestone @TVB_cloud

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7:56 am · 2021-01-11
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Numerous studies have collected #Alzheimer's disease cohort #data sets. @BirkenbihlC and colleagues have evaluated the Alzheimer's disease data landscape from a patient‐level data‐centric perspective. @IMI_EPAD @IMI_EMIF @NACCALZ alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wi…

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7:48 am · 2021-01-11
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The final @IMI_EPAD dataset is now available to the entire research community | News | @CORDIS_EU | European Commission europa.eu/!dj89jY

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