{"id":3579,"date":"2019-07-29T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzheimer.noemi.lu\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:48:24","slug":"epad-exhibits-at-aaic-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/epad-exhibits-at-aaic-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"EPAD exhibits at AAIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members\u00a0of the EPAD team attended the <\/span><\/span>Alzheimer’s Association International Conference<\/span><\/a> (AAIC) held on 14-18 July. They travelled to Los Angeles (US) from across Europe for the biggest event in dementia research. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The event featured a number of key symposia, focused topic sessions and poster presentations and highlighted significant progress, results and theories that will help bring the world closer to breakthroughs in dementia science.\u00a0 The five-day scientific conference brought together nearly 6,000 leaders in dementia research including academics, clinical researchers, clinicians, investigators and the care research community.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is the second year that we exhibited the EPAD studies with our EPAD branded green and white booth in the exhibition area. We are delighted that more than 350 people stopped by at the EPAD booth to learn more about the project and discuss further topics such as the EPAD data access process, the Longitudinal Cohort Study (LCS) set up and, of course, the Proof of Concept (PoC) study. It was also a great opportunity to meet many current and future EPAD collaborators. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“It was\u00a0<\/b>as a real pleasure to attend AAIC in Los Angeles. It was my first AAIC and I really enjoyed the whole experience. Our booth was popular and it was great to be able to chat with so many attendees about the work we do in EPAD and establish new connections.\u201d – Natalia Reglinska-Matveyev<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

EPAD also had a business suite at the exhibition area where <\/span>many engaging meetings with potential interventional owners and other world experts on Alzheimer\u2019s disease prevention took place.<\/span> Altogether, the conversations we had at the booth and the business suite generated a rich exchange of ideas and <\/span>we are excited that various collaborations are being considered. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great to return to AAIC 2019 after the success of last year\u2019s booth. This year we had even more visitors to the EPAD booth, with increases in both industry and academics. Many of the people I spoke with came to the booth as they had heard about the work EPAD was doing and wanted to find out more about how they could get involved. Hot topics once again included data access, and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing what questions the EPAD data is going to be able to help the scientific community answer.” \u2013 Sarah Gregory <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

At AAIC 2019, the aim of the EPAD booth was twofold. Our first aim was to showcase the EPAD PoC trial platform and engage the pharma and biotech industry. To support this a new high quality animated video was created to highlight the key benefits of the EPAD approach to develop drugs for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (you can watch it <\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/a>). <\/span><\/span>Our second aim was to show all the benefits that EPAD has to offer to the scientific community. In order to do so, the EPAD booth included an interactive screen on which attendees could browse their topics of interest including the LCS and PoC studies, the EPAD Academy, the data access process and upcoming data batches, disease modelling, the statistical study design and interviews and testimonials of many EPADistas and collaborators.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAAIC was a fantastic opportunity to show to the AD world what EPAD has done in the last 4,5 years. After reading the name of the project, many people came to the booth asking what we had in mind to prevent Alzheimer\u00b4s dementia. Their reaction was often a \u201cWow\u201d. – Laura Carrera Carball\u00e9s.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, we are glad that the EPAD team had two oral presentations at AAIC on different aspects of the project. Both generated a great deal of interest from researchers outside the project:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n