The BioMed Alliance started 2020 well, with a new President, President-Elect and a new Board Member. We look forward to working with them on the many interesting activities that we are planning this year.
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The global momentum to deliver a more coordinated response to the threat posed by neurological disorders is increasing. -
The BioMed Alliance leadership met with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel to discuss how to improve biomedical research in Europe on 5 February.
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On 18 February, at a European Parliament lunch debate hosted by Christophe Hansen MEP (Luxembourg), Alzheimer Europe launched a new report presenting the findings of its collaborative analysis of recent prevalence studies and setting out updated prevalence rates for dementia in Europe. -
In November 2019, CoCoCare consortium came together for the transnational meeting to discuss the progress of the first pilot of the course and start preparing for the second pilot. Colleagues from the European Academy of Neurology also joined the consortium to share their perspective. It was a busy but also a very productive day! -
News in generalOther NewsThe Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) 2019 Symposium “Bringing Pain Policy to the Next Decade”
This year SIP celebrated ten years since establishment and on November 7th symposium “Bringing Pain Policy to the Next Decade” was organised in Brussels. More than 200 delegates from 24 countries participate on-site and many more followed symposium online. -
“Health data standardisation workshop: looking at the implementation of the 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)” The Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) has organized a workshop "Health data standardisation workshop: looking at the implementation of ICD-11 and ICF" on November 6th 2019. More than 60 scientific experts, decisions makers and patients' representatives gathered at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union in Brussels.
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This year the eight edition of the conference entitled "Recent Advances in Clinical and Experimental Research on Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders" was held as usually in Bressanone, Italy. The event, which took place from 22 to 24 January, represents an interesting unique in the Italian panorama, starting from the choice to use English as the official language up to the calibre of the speakers. -
PRIME project kicks off – New mental health project aims to uncover insulin-related mechanisms linking disorders of body and brain -
Research and innovation is again high on the European Commission’s agenda in 2020. -
Alzheimer Europe holds lunch debate examining diagnosis of dementia.
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The BioMed Alliance and FEAM joined forces to co-organise a workshop exploring opportunities and challenges for maximising the impact of health research in the coming years.
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On 18 February 2020, EFNA together with EBC and EAN, will hold the event “Brain Health as a Global Priority – Time for the EU to Act Now” in the European Parliament, Brussels from 11am to 1pm in Room 6Q1, hosted by Jarosław Duda, EPP.
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Meeting of WHO with EFNA, EAN and EBC to discuss brain health Report Objectives: Platform for all participants to present their ongoing work and discuss potential collaboration in the area of brain health Participants: European Academy of Neurology (EAN): Raad… Continue Reading -
ERN-RND provides educational webinars on rare neurological and neuromuscular diseases – in collaboration with the European Reference Network for Rare Neuromuscular Diseases (EURO-NMD) and the European Academy of Neurology.