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The Strategic Research Area Neuroscience (StratNeuro) will hold a lunch Webinar with the title: “The Ageing Brain” on April 12. The NEAR Director, Laura Fratiglioni and NEAR Scientific Advisory Board member, Miia Kivipelto, will participate and talk about: “Dementia in older adults: the body-mind connection”, respectively “Multidomain precision prevention for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: new findings from World-Wide-FINGERS trials”.
Apply now for the possibility of joining the NEAR team as a Statistician and contributing to an initiative with far-reaching implications for public health and well-being! Your mission NEAR is a ground-breaking infrastructure comprising 15 databases derived from longitudinal cohort studies across various regions in Sweden, collectively encompassing over 100,000 individuals aged 50 and above. […]
We are excited to share the highlights from NEAR’s scientific workshop “A National E-Infrastructure to Improve Public Health” at the European Public Health Conference 2024 in Lisbon. Ingrid Ekström chaired the workshop, beginning with an introduction from Linnea Sjöberg, who provided an overview of the NEAR infrastructure and its role in advancing aging research in […]
On a beautiful fall day on 15 October, NEAR held its sixth workshop in the majestic facilities of the Swedish Society of Medicine. After the initial welcome from NEAR’s Director, Laura Fratiglioni, the workshop continued with various presentations led by the Chair, Björn Halleröd. During these, leading experts of extensive longitudinal and epidemiological studies presented […]