We are delighted to announce the 2026 participants of the EAN Tournament for neurologists in training. Ten participants will each make a five-minute presentation (3-minute spotlight + 2-minute Q&A) during our special Tournament Finals session at EAN 2026, which will also be broadcast live on EAN TV. As last year, both the basic and clinical categories will be contested within one grand finale.
A panel of four experts will judge the presentations and select two winners (one basic, one clinical) at the end of the session. The winners will receive free congress registration for the 13th EAN Annual Congress, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2027, including four nights’ accommodation and a travel grant. Two runners-up (one basic, one clinical) will also receive free registration for EAN 2027.
Tune in to the EAN Tournament Finals on Saturday, 27 June 2026, 17:15 – 18:45 in Room Amsterdam
Congratulations and the best of luck to all our tournament participants!
Basic Category
Marco Toccaceli Blasi – Frailty is associated with structural and metabolic brain changes in cognitively unimpaired adults
Riccardo Currò – CANVAS-associated AAGGG repeat expansions cause cell-specific reduction in RFC1 expression and impaired DNA damage response
Antonio Esposito – Correlations between coroid plex volume, EPVS and MRI markers of MS pathology
Irina Filchenko – Brain and heart cross-talk: cortical topography of slow-wave–heart rhythm coupling is associated with cognition
Gianmaria Senerchia – REST inhibition as a therapeutic and prognostic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: from siRNA silencing to serum biomarkers
Clinical Category
Francesco Bruno – IDH-mutant gliomas treated with vorasidenib: early seizure control correlates with [18F]-DOPA PET response and D-2-hydroxyglutarate plasma reduction.
Kshiteeja Jain – Disentangling age-related and disease-specific upper cervical cord atrophy in multiple sclerosis
Poul Laigaard – Pupillary light-off latency predicts 7-day improvement in consciousness in patients with acute disorders of consciousness
Piervito Lopriore – Clinical and genotypic spectrum of twinkle-related disorders: Insights from a multinational cohort study
Antonio Malvaso – Clinical and prognostic features of de novo central nervous system non-MS demyelinating disorders following immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
