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Dreem to provide headband for cutting-edge EDoN initiative
Dreem, the Digital Health Company specialized in Sleep Medicine, to provide headband for cutting-edge EDoN initiative Dreem has joined Alzheimer’s UK’s global initiative, Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN), as a consortium partner for three years. This partnership has brought the development of wearables to detect early Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases a step closer…
Read MoreEDoN Welcomes Mike Oldham as Director and Lisa Farier as Head of Research Informatics
Mike Oldham has joined Alzheimer’s Research UK as the new Director of EDoN, while Lisa Farier becomes the Head of Research Informatics. Prior to joining EDoN as the director in September 2021, Mike had already been involved with the work of the initiative as a member of the EDoN Steering Committee. An aeronautical engineer by…
Read MoreThe National Physical Laboratory (NPL) joins EDoN initiative
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) joins EDoN initiative The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has joined Alzheimer’s Research UK’s global initiative, Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN), as a consortium partner for three years. EDoN is the largest initiative of its kind that will collect, share and analyse clinical and digital health data to develop and…
Read MoreWillingness to get involved in medical research at ‘all time high’
Almost 1 in 3 (29%) of adults say they are more likely to consider getting involved in medical research because of the COVID-19 pandemic, new polling has revealed today. The news comes ahead of World Alzheimer’s Day (21 September) as the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK calls on the public to register their interest in…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Investment Boosts Search for Digital Biomarkers for Early Alzheimer’s
ADDF’s Diagnostic Accelerator funds UK-led EDoN initiative to transform early detection The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), a U.S.- based venture philanthropy, has announced up to $2 million of funding for a collaborative research initiative led by UK charity Alzheimer’s Research UK that aims to develop a digital Toolkit of apps and wearables to detect…
Read MoreFirst digital data collected in global Alzheimer’s wearable project
The development of a wearable to detect early Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases years before symptoms show has taken a step closer to reality today, as UK charity Alzheimer’s Research UK announces a partnership with Boston University that will see the first digital data flowing into its global Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN) initiative.…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Research UK partners with global leaders including Bill Gates to revolutionise detection of neurodegenerative diseases
Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has partnered with global leaders, including Bill Gates, to advance the charity’s Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN) initiative. The global initiative, which aims to develop a digital device to radically improve the detection of diseases that cause dementia, aims to secure at least £67million over…
Read MoreDementia charity spearheads global initiative to use wearables to revolutionise disease detection
The UK’s leading dementia research charity Alzheimer’s Research UK has today (11 February) launched a global initiative to revolutionise the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. The project will harness and analyse a wealth of digital data to develop signatures of disease – or “fingerprints” – that can be then detected using wearable technologies,…
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