On 31 July, the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) project released its external newsletter and reported the important advances that have been made during the past quarter. Although the IMI period of EPAD has come to an end for many members in June and the rest of them in October, the aims, objectives and vision of EPAD persists. National programmes are being developed to follow up all the EPAD participants in a series of linked national and local programmes.
During the past quarter, the EPAD members released to the world the V1500.0 dataset and are planning to release the entire EPAD dataset to the partnership in September. Lucy Stirland (University of Edinburgh, UK) has been awarded the 2020 Porto Research Award from the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) for her paper using EPAD V500.0 data, published last year in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.The newsletter also includes the important advances and major achievements made by each Work Package during the lifespan of the project.
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The EPAD project has received support from the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under grant agreement n° 115736, resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies’ in kind contribution