Category JPND News|JPND Progress

The Network of Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (CoEN) is now accepting applications to its 2017 Pathfinder III call. CoEN is an international initiative involving nine research funders in Europe and Canada that aims to build productive collaborative research activity…

Prof. Philippe Amouyel, Chair of the JPND Management Board, discusses JPND progress in the latest issue of Impact. Click here to download a PDF of the full article. To learn more about Impact and to access the full issue, click here.

In 2015, JPND has launched a joint transnational co-funded call in partnership with the European Commission under the ERA-NET Co-fund scheme in three JPND priority areas:   Longitudinal Cohort Approaches, Advanced Experimental Models, Risk and Protective Factors.   Twenty-one project proposals…

REPORTS AVAILABLE JPND call 2014:  “ Working Groups to Inform Cohort Studies in Neurodegenerative Disease Research“   Increasing the impact of longitudinal population studies for neurodegenerative disease research The use of population studies offers a significant opportunity for research into…

On February 26th, 2015, Australia joined the ‘JPco-fuND’ call for proposals. Due to this late arrival, researchers from Australia can participate as external collaborators in proposals submitted to this call under specific conditions. The specific conditions for researchers in Australia…

Since late 2014, a total of 25 JPND-supported transnational projects and working groups have begun their work to tackle the challenge of neurodegenerative diseases in a number of JPND priority areas. JPND has now published user-friendly fact sheets of the individual…

The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) in partnership with the European Commission has launched the ‘JPco-fuND’ call for proposals aimed at supporting transnational research collaborations in three JPND priority areas: Longitudinal Cohort Approaches; Advanced Experimental Models; Risk…

The JPND Action Group on palliative and end-of-life care has published its report, bringing together for the first time an analysis of gaps and collation of needs and opportunities for neurodegeneration research across JPND countries. JPND is currently investigating the…

A total of fifteen international consortia have been proposed for funding under two JPND Transnational calls between a total of 18 countries. These new projects are aiming to analyse neurodegenerative diseases across traditional clinical boundaries, and also to begin “pilot” studies for…

Ten international working groups to be funded under JPND call The EU Joint Programme Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) has released the results of a “rapid action” call to support ten groups of leading scientists in finding ways to enhance the…