Another EPAD year has passed and we are proud to look back at a lot of successful deliveries and established relationships. To celebrate turning four, we look back at some of our key achievements of the past 12 months.<\/p>\n
On 16th January, the EPAD Academy officially started its first activity by proposing online webinars by world-class senior researchers on current topics in Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) research for EPAD Fellows.<\/p>\n
On 27th February, our partner Alzheimer Europe held a successful lunch debate entitled \u201cWill we be able to prevent Alzheimer\u2019s dementia\u201d at the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium). The lunch debate focused on the prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and dementia through three key presentations. The panel included a presentation by Craig Ritchie (UEDIN) who looked at what the EPAD project can offer in terms of research into prevention.<\/p>\n
The EPAD General Assembly took place in Amsterdam. The meeting, hosted by VUmc and kindly sponsored by VUmc, Amgen, Novartis and Janssen, was held under the banner \u201cHow to assure sustainability\u201d.<\/p>\n
EPAD was on the news in Australia. Craig Ritchie gave a plenary lecture \u201cPreventing Dementia: False Promise or True Progress\u201d at the International Dementia Conference<\/a> in Sydney on the 7th June and mentioned EPAD. The Australian national news service Nine News echoed the importance of our project (broadcast available here<\/a>).<\/p>\n On 27th June, over 400 people attended the IMI event<\/a> \u201cCelebrating 10 Years of Medical Innovation\u201d at the European Parliament in Brussels. Serge van der Geyten (Janssen) presented the EPAD project.<\/p>\n Various activities were undertaken in July to generate awareness on the importance of Alzheimer\u2019s disease prevention and the EPAD project:<\/p>\n On 29th August, the EPAD\u2019s Scottish team were lucky to visit the stunning University of Aberdeen campus for the inaugural EPAD Scotland conference. The event gathered almost 80 delegates including participants, site staff and the wider Scottish EPAD team.<\/p>\n Moreover, in August, we reached another milestone as the EPAD family of trial delivery centres grew to 20 sites with Brescia (Italy) enrolling its first research participant.<\/p>\n September 21st marks World Alzheimer\u2019s Day. September was a busy month for our EPAD partners and TDCs, with a number of meetings and events taking place to join the World Alzheimer\u2019s Month campaign.<\/p>\n September 21st, a date we will not easily forget, as the 1,000th EPAD Research Participant has joined the EPAD family by volunteering to participate in the EPAD Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS).<\/p>\n We are also pleased that the first EPAD Academy exchange has officially started in September. Gemma Salvad\u00f3 from Fundaci\u00f3 Pasqual Maragall<\/a> stayed for three months at Amsterdam UMC \u2013 Locatie VUmc<\/a> supervised by Prof Frederik Barkhof.<\/p>\n In October, the EPAD project was presented at various events:<\/p>\nJuly<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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