Meetings

Meeting in Athens, Greece, Thursday-Friday April 28 – 29, 2022
THURSDAY April 28^th 

12:00 LUNCH

13:00   Welcome and Introduction;  Lutz Frölich, Frank Jessen, Nick Scarmeas                                                                               

13:10   Host lectures on special topics  Moderator: Frank Jessen

Junior Researchers Lectures

• Frailty in a community geriatric population: cognitive and other aspects. [10 min + 5 min discussion]
  Eva Ntanasi, PhD, Neuropsychologist, Aiginition Hospital Cognitive Disorders Clinic
• Cognitive dysfunction in Parkinsonian disorders including prodromal Parkinson’s disease [20 min + 5 min discussion]

Senior Researcher Lecture

• Blood based biomarkers: an update [30 min + 10 min discussion]
  Oskar Hanson, MD, Clinical Memory Research Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Memory Clinic, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

14:30   EADC Symposium on Life-style factors and Cognition, Moderator: Nick Scarmeas

• Sleep and Cognitive dysfunction: biological and clinical aspects [15 min + 10 min discussion]
  Elissaios Karageorgiou, MD, Global Brain Health Institute fellow, Neurological Institute of Athens.
• Cognitive Reserve related lifestyle aspects and cognition [15 min + 10 min discussion]
  Robert Perneczky: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München, Munich, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich, Munich, Germany; Ageing Epidemiology (AGE) Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK

15:20 COFFEE break, Moderator: Lutz Frölich

15.50  EADC Presentation

• ARIA in Alzheimer’s disease and under treatment with amyloid antibodies [15 min + 10 min discussion]
  Fabrizio Piazza, MD, CAA and AD Translational Research and Biomarkers Lab, School of Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca

16:15  Roche sponsored Scientific Session – Update on Gantenerumab Clinical Program – Skyline Clinical Trial

• Introduction [5 min] – Antoine Chevrette – Roche GMCL
• From Scarlet to Graduate and beyond – Update on gantenerumab in early AD [15 min] – Dr Timo Grimmer – Germany
• The Skyline study – Gantenerumab in participants at-risk of or at the earliest stage of AD [15 min] – Dr Pierre Jean Ousset – France Q&A  

17:00   Closing day

(EADC Executive Committee meeting 17:00 – 18:00)

19:30  DINNER

FRIDAY April 29^th

08:30 COFFEE

09:00    EADC related completed or almost completed projects (10 min each + 3min discussion)

• Introduction on intersocietal efforts to harmonise patient assessment Giovanni Frisoni
• European intersocietal consensus on biomarker-based diagnosis of MCI Flavio Nobili
• Real world outcome measures in Alzheimer Pieter Jelle Visser
• EAN Guideline on management of dementia Kristian Steen     Frederiksen
• Harmonization of EADC neuropsychological battery Marina Boccardi
• EADB Augustin Ruiz Laza

10:20   Updates: EADC related ongoing/upcoming projects (10 min each)

• AmyPad Pieter Jelle Visser
• RADAR-AD Casper de Boer
• EPND Pieter Jelle Visser
• PMI-AD  Milica Kramberger
• ADDITION Milica Kramberger
• TIMING  Rune Nielsen

11:30 COFFEE break

12:00   Upcoming calls                                                                      

New IHI (previous IMI) call – JPND and other calls Pieter Jelle Visser

12:10   EADC – Pharma relations Frank Jessen

Open Discussion

12:40   Other EADC issues Lutz Frölich

Membership, bank account, change of leadership

12:45   Next meetings, Summary & Closing  Nick Scarmeas, Lutz Frölich & Frank Jessen

13:00 LUNCH

Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday-Tuesday Sept 26 – 27, 2022
Monday September 26^th 

10:00   EADC Executive Committee meeting (Hotel)

11:15   Bus transportation from Elite Palace Hotel Sankt Eriksgatan 115 to Huddinge

Meeting Venue:  NEO building, Blickagången 16, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge

12:00 LUNCH

13:00   Welcome and introduction,  Frank Jessen, Lutz Frölich, Bengt Winblad

13:10   Host lectures (Stockholm), Moderator:  Lutz Frölich

Junior researcher lectures

• Konstantinos Chiotis. The potential clinical use of Tau-PET [10 min + 5 min discussion]
• Sophia Schedin Weiss. Glycans measured in blood and CSF for early detection of AD [10 min + 5 min discussion]

Senior researcher lecture

• Eric Westman. Unraveling the heterogeneity in AD and other neurodegenerative disorders with neuroimaging [15 min + 5 min discussion]

14:00   EADC Symposium on biological subtypes of AD, Moderator: Gunhild Waldemar

• Giovanni Frisoni: The probabilistic model of AD [15 min + 5 min discussion] remote
• Alfredo Ramirez: Senescense mechanisms in AD [15 min + 5 min discussion] remote
• Pieter-Jelle Visser: Proteomic subtypes of AD [15 min + 5 min discussion]

Discussion: What are the implications for drug development [30 min], Moderator: Gunhild Waldemar

15:30 COFFEE break

16:00   Industry presentation, 30 min + 15 min each, Moderator: Frank Jessen

• BioArctic: Title TBD. Lars Lannfelt
• Combinostic: Title TBD. Richard Hausmann/Lennart Thurfjell

17:30   Closing day 1

17:30 Bus transport for dinner incl scientific pres at M/S Östanå, Nybroviken

Tuesday September 27^th  

Meeting venue: Nobel Forum, Solnavägen 1, Karolinska Institutet, Solna

Closed EADC members meeting 09:00 – 10:00

09:00    EADC internal issues and report from the steering committee, Moderator: Frank Jessen

• Finance, membership fee, industry fee Lutz
• Office Milica
• Website Frank
• EADC logo Milica
• EADC activities for young investigators Sebastiaan, Merce
• Next meeting site Frank
• Other issues Frank

Presentation of new centers (15 minutes each) Pat

• Sebastiaan Engelborghs – new Centre: Bru-BRAIN (Brussels Integrated Center for Brain and Memory, Brussels, Belgium
• Emma Law – update on EADC Centre Perth, Scotland
• Stanislav Sutovsky new Centre (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
• Ansgar Felbecker (and Thomas Schneider) new Centre (Kantonsspital St Gallen, Switzerland)

11:00 COFFEE break

11:30    EADC related projects (7 min each + 3min discussion), Moderator: Lutz Frölich

• Real world outcome measures in Alzheimer Pieter Jelle
• AMYPAD Pieter Jelle
• RADAR-AD Pieter Jelle
• EPND Peter Jelle
• EADB Agustin
• PreAdapt Agustin
• PIMI-AD Milica
• ADDITION Linus
• Position statement on anti-amyloid therapy Kristian

13:00   New EADC – projects Frank

• Open Discussion

13:15  Next meetings, Summary & Closing Frank & Lutz