{"id":1781,"date":"2018-03-06T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzheimer.noemi.lu\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2018-03-06T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T09:04:38","slug":"congratulations-to-the-epad-trial-delivery-centre-of-the-month-bbrc-barcelona-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/congratulations-to-the-epad-trial-delivery-centre-of-the-month-bbrc-barcelona-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the EPAD Trial Delivery Centre of the Month: BBRC (Barcelona, Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce that the Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center (BBRC) was the most successful trial delivery centre (TDC) in February with 14 newly screened participants in the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS). Congratulations to the entire team (pictured)!<\/p>\n<p>The European Prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s Dementia initiative (EPAD) recruited its first Spanish research participant in June 2016 via BBRC (Barcelona, Spain). It was the first site to open in Spain and the second in Europe and has currently recruited over 145 participants. It is the institute where the Pasqual Maragall Foundation conducts all the scientific activities and the research projects to fight Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. This center is a high-level technological infrastructure at the service of the clinical research for the prevention of Alzheimer&#8217;s. For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/u1891751.ct.sendgrid.net\/wf\/click?upn=Fu-2Bbm2VcEog5Y9IIcQCj31RjXbdlNUIJQajhUy6OANpuxcz8lT3dzphkM7K69JbAPT71ORrPO85z1uwb-2Fwkh-2FBbqrFq2hZwZzAkLfS-2FVv1Nnvnlcu0TkTn-2BL72bDGqIysoWJ4v4AExwcnVs1cgQiwx2lnZxIz0Hmzn0-2FzhNTxZRgfJ-2FApOeOScdSKr7NHU2iB0NkUBD-2FXetcgQqSvn8FfBmEgjJEJ1yWQO3-2F-2FVtgvEY-3D_5yuTeEmu5vDwxTMxV7K7Vi49it34tBmiJUxwj9HgfZZ3OJ1GH3Ru4TT6GZttmam-2FJRC-2FzIgIqNTIl7qggoRbx9C0CgsgailEjL1k6bXMYZMsCKHQa9stiUWyp5fryJGoq-2FEKB32N6myAbNVo6ZBThjTdcoKDlDAnY7ym1k79OjngVTc9Lt3FaVGV8zerFfbu9lqTmBd7cEzgkdC-2B68FlhCQkIRqVfYweqsqlw7QyJdc-3D\">https:\/\/www.barcelonabeta.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Jos\u00e9 Luis Molinuevo, EPAD co-leader and Scientific Director of the BBRC, \u201cWe are happy to be part of EPAD and contribute to its success. We are thankful to the commitment of the Alfa Study research participants, who are determined to contribute to change the history of the disease, and\u00a0undoubtedly,\u00a0to our EPAD TDC team, both key actors to our success\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>EPAD has opened several new sites in recent weeks. We currently have 12 sites enrolling and 510 research participants screened of which 465 are currently enrolled. We are delighted that the EPAD LCS study recruited 53 new participants in February, making it the most successful month to date. There is a major drive to open new sites in the coming days and weeks as well as enhance recruitment &#8211; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: from the left:\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Luis Molinuevo,\u00a0Laia Tenas, Anna Soteras,\u00a0Anna Brugulat, Carolina Herrero, Laura Hern\u00e1ndez, Oriol Grau, Tania Mench\u00f3n and Montserrat Vila<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/logo-BBRC-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1434\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1434 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/logo-BBRC-1.png\" alt=\"logo BBRC\" width=\"235\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce that the Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center (BBRC) was the most successful trial delivery centre (TDC) in February with 14 newly screened participants in the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS). Congratulations to the entire team (pictured)! The European Prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s Dementia initiative (EPAD) recruited its first Spanish research participant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}