The future of brain health in Europe
We are pleased to invite you to an Incisive Health morning club with Frédéric Destrebecq, Executive Director of the European Brain Council. The discussion will be introduced by Francesca Scassellati Sforzolini, Managing Director of Incisive Health Brussels, and moderated by Eduardo Pisani, Strategic Advisor at Incisive Health. Brain disorders are one of the greatest health challenges in [...]
Neurological diseases: Lessons learnt from COVID and the future of neuroscience
EFNA, EFPIA and EBC are delighted to invite you to join the virtual event: “Neurological diseases: Lessons learnt from COVID and the future of neuroscience” taking place on 28 September from 12:00 until 13:00 CEST. Access to care, treatments and trustworthy information has become very difficult during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. How has this impacted the community of patients with neurological diseases and what can we learn from their experience? What is [...]
6th National Brain Council Academy
ZOOM WEBINAR September 29, 16:00-17:00 Brussels time Programme • Tomas Zdechovsky, MEP– Introduction • Monica Di Luca, EBC President: EBC-NBCs and the new EU framework programme • Frédéric Destrebecq, EBC Executive Director: EBC projects and NBCs • Christina Dalla: The launching of the Hellenic Brain Council • Fokion Dimitriadis: NBCs and the patient voice • Pavle [...]
EBC Sessions at Digitalscience@UNGA75
EBC has been invited to host two side sessions at the upcoming sciencedigital@UNGA75 series of virtual side events within the context of the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA75) in September 2020. The central theme of these activities will be to advance awareness of the role and contribution of science and digital technologies to the [...]
Brain Innovation Days 2020
The European Brain Council and beLean.net will virtually launch the first Brain Innovation Days on 13 October, 2020, with the full on-site event to be held 12-13 October 2021 in Brussels. 179 million Europeans are currently living with brain disorders and this is to steadily increase as the population ages. Though one in three Europeans are [...]
EU Health Summit 2020: Time for action
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of cooperation between all sectors and actors to ensure our healthcare systems can function to their best ability in saving human lives. In 2018, 33 organisations came together under the umbrella of the EU Health Coalition. They jointly developed 20 recommendations for a healthier Europe to promote a shared [...]
The ESO-WSO Virtual Conference
The ESO-WSO Virtual Conference will meet the needs of the stroke community and offer major clinical trials, state-of-the-art presentations by renowned clinicians and researchers, and updates on the latest guidelines. The Virtual Conference will take place on 7-9 November 2020. Virtual sessions will allow live interaction and will be available on-demand in the weeks following [...]
Virtual workshop on good practices for the off-label use of medicines in Sweden and Norway
The use of medicines off-label plays an important role in various areas of medicine as it allows patients to be treated in cases where an authorised drug is not available for a specific therapeutic indication, population or method of administration. Despite its importance, off-label prescription lacks a clear and uniform approach at European level. As [...]
Global Webinar Series 2020-2021: Part 3 – Decision for shunt surgery. The role of predictive tests and biomarkers
The Hydrocephalus Society is delighted to announce the Hydrocephalus Society Global Webinar Series on iNPH 2020-2021! A series of 6 monthly webinars will take place, beginning from November 2020 until April 2021. In these challenging times, our duty is to support our community in all ways possible. For this reason, the Hydrocephalus Society board of [...]
Brain Innovation Days: From Innovative Ideas to Creative Brain Interventions
The Brain Innovation Days teams is very pleased to announce that the second Brain Innovation Days digital event will be held on 26 January 2021 at 12:30-14:30. After a successful digital launch on 13 October 2020 kicking off one full year of a packed brain innovation agenda under the overarching theme “Disrupt and rewire: How brain innovation is changing [...]