Many thanks to our 🌟 partners for a fabulous kickoff to this year’s EPND Annual Meeting!
Here’s a quick look at a few of today’s key moments:
📍 We started with a warm welcome from EPND co-Coordinator, Pieter Jelle Visser, celebrating our collective achievements in 2024. Highlights included the analysis of #biomarker data from 350 individuals with AD, PD or DLB, from 7 European centers. Facilitated by EPND's platform and services, this innovative case study has identified shared pathologies across disease areas.
🚀 Building on these achievements, our co-Lead Niranjan Bose emphasised EPND's vision and mission: to enable and facilitate research, bringing new medicines and diagnostics to patients. Looking ahead to 2025, our efforts will center on delivering tangible value to the #neurodegeneration community.
🖥 Vijay Sureshkumar showcased EPND's Technical Hub - a major milestone for the project, set to be launched at the end of 2024. The Hub will incorporate new functionalities for enhanced #biosample discovery, catalogue syndication, and much more. 👀 Keep your eyes peeled for updates!
🤝 A central aim for EPND is to enable collaboration, making cohorts discoverable, and promoting the reuse of valuable datasets & samples. Matthew Clement and Sara Gomes outlined recent progress in onboarding research cohorts to the Catalogue, which currently includes 83 #neurodegenerative disease cohorts across 12 disease areas, representing >250,000 research participants.
📈 Raj Long and Carlos Díaz, who are co-leading the #sustainability workstream in EPND, outlined our roadmap toward sustainability - creating a foundation for continued innovation and progress in the medium and long term.
📮 In the afternoon, we broke into groups to tackle two key topics: “Onboarding, Growth, and Services” and “Communicating with our community”, facilitated by Stephanie Vos, Matthew Clement, Sara Gomes and Angela Bradshaw, as well as our co-Lead Phil Scordis. Following interactive discussions and exchanges, we reconvened to share key takeaways, generating valuable insights that will help shape the future direction of EPND.
🙏 Thanks to all our partners for their energy & insights today - here’s to more progress on Day 2!
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Maastricht University | University of Leicester | Gates Ventures | UCB
AC Immune | Alzheimer Europe | Aridhia – Digital Research Environment – DRE | BBMRI-ERIC | BMD Software |The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson | King's College London | CHUV | Lausanne university hospital | Novartis | Roche | Sanofi | Lygature | Amsterdam UMC - Alzheimer Center Amsterdam | Svar Life Science AB | SYNAPSE Research Management Partners | Takeda | Teva Pharmaceuticals | German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) | IBBL (Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg) | University of Oxford | University of Geneva | Regulatory Science CBG-MEB | University of Groningen | University of Gothenburg | University of Luxembourg
Many thanks for your support! 🙏🏼