The European Early-Onset Dementia consortium.

This project finances the coordination activities of the European Early-Onset Dementia (EU EOD) consortium. The EU EOD consortium was founded in 2011 by the P.I. to promote and facilitate translational genetic and clinical research of early-onset dementia (EOD) at the European level. The aim of the consortium is to capitalize on the genetic power of EOD patients combined with the novel –omics technologies that have become available. The consortium consists of 29 partners from 14 EU countries. These are dementia expert centers covering the fields of neurology, neuropathological, clinical research (biomarkers, neuroimaging) and treatment trials, medical genetics and molecular genetics. Amongst the participating centers, collections includes > 5000 EOD patients with an expected yearly growth of 500 patients. The FWO ICA fund supports the coordination and activities of the consortium such as organizing regular meetings between the partners either in conjunction with international conferences or of formal EU EOD consortium annual meetings.

Keywords:DEMENTIA, MOLECULAR GENETICS

Disciplines:Genetics, Systems biology, Molecular and cell biology, Neurosciences, Biological and physiological psychology, Cognitive science and intelligent systems, Developmental psychology and ageing

Project type:Collaboration project