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JPND 2018 Joint Transnational Call for Research Proposals: Get in touch with us!

EU-OPENSCREEN warmly welcomes consortia bidding for the JPDN call “Multinational research projects on Health and Social Care for Neurodegenerative Diseases” to come and discuss how our respective organisations might cooperate.

The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) will shortly launch a call for “Multinational research projects on Health and Social Care for Neurodegenerative Diseases”.

EU-OPENSCREEN warmly welcomes consortia bidding for the JPND call to come and discuss how our respective organisations might cooperate. Please email us at office@eu-openscreen.eu for more information.

The multidisciplinary proposals for the JPND call need to focus on one or several of the following research areas:

• Care pathways and programmes using the potential of patient involvement

• Factors influencing progression and prognosis of disease

• Outcome measures for patients and their informal carers

• Palliative care of patients

• Cost-effectiveness and affordability of interventions including ethical concerns The following neurodegenerative diseases are included in the call:

• Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

• Parkinson’s disease and PD‐related disorders

• Prion diseases • Motor neuron diseases

• Huntington’s disease • Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA)

• Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

This will be a two-step call, expected to be launched in early January 2018, with a likely pre-proposal submission deadline in March 2018. Further details will be provided with the official launch of the call. For information on JPND, please visit www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu