News from EAN member societies

Alzheimer Europe calls for urgent action to address the impact of COVID-19 on dementia research

Professor Tissa Wijeratne and Professor Wolfgang Grisold have teamed up on an expert article for the World Brain Day "Move together to End Parkinson's Disease".

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Neurology Published by the Turkish Neurological Society COVID-19 COMMITTEE

The EMA Inspections Office together with the Good Clinical Practice Inspectors Working Group (GCP-IWG) is seeking to identify patients and healthcare professional experts who could share their experience with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical field, particularly to discuss practical use cases and challenges validating AI tools.

From the Spanish Society of Neurology, it is our pleasure to share with our European colleagues the Handbook on COVID-19 management for Neurologists.

EBRA launches 3rd call for clusters

BioMed Alliance Board Members publish an article outlining the need for cooperation.

Alzheimer Europe’s 30th Annual Conference #30AEC, which was planned to take place in Bucharest, will now be a virtual conference, under the banner “Dementia in a changing world”

Discussions during last year’s Spring Meeting and General Assembly showed that BioMed Alliance Members are affected by Plan S. Due to COVID-19, adaptation to the open access initiative within the foreseen timeline has become even more challenging for medical societies.… Continue Reading

The latest revision (v3) of the Guidance on how to manage clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic was published on 28 April. This version contains key changes based also on the feedback from different stakeholders’ groups (patients’ organisations, academia and… Continue Reading

Since January 31st, Coronavirus has spread along all the Spanish territory; however, some regions are particularly compromised in terms of number of cases: Madrid, Catalonia, Basque Country and the two Castillian regions. The total number of confirmed cases is about to surpass Italy. We hope to be reaching the plateau of the curve, after all the implemented social distancing measures.

On October 12-15, the Italian society of neurology (SIN, Società Italiana di Neurologia) celebrated its 50th congress in Bologna. Bologna has the oldest Italian University, founded in 1088, and is the town of many outstanding Italian neuroscientists. Moreover, Bologna has been the nest of some of the major European schools in the field of epilepsy and sleep medicine.