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►The ADRD (Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders) Conclusions Report from the outGRID - ITU workshop held in Geneva on 21st February is now available, presenting the discussion on current context on ADRD research and funding, current problems and challenges, conclusions and follow-up actions.

►A Brain Imaging graduate course is organised by Karolinska Institute for registered students from 19-23 March 2012. Topics of courses will focus on Measurement of Brain Morphology using Magnetic Resonance Images and will be given by various professors. More

►Login planned downtime: the 02/19/2012 from 9:30AM to 2PM. Major VOMS upgrade.

►The EGI Community Forum in conjuction with the 2nd EMI Technical Conference is taking place on 26-30 March in Munich.

►The next N4U Management Meeting is taking place on 21-23 May in Amsterdam.

Institutions that N4U Collaborates with for Research on Alzheimer's Disease

Related Instutions to N4U, their Main Focus and N4U Collaboration Areas

Related Institution	Description
Alzheimer Association	The Alzheimer's Association is the leading, global voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care and support, and the largest private, nonprofit funder of Alzheimer's research.
Alzheimer Europe	An NGO aiming to raising awareness of all forms of dementia by creating a common European platform through co-ordination and co-operation between Alzheimer organisations throughout Europe. Alzheimer Europe is also a source of information on all aspects of dementia.
CANARIE (Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network)	CANARIE is a dedicated network of high-speed, fibre optic cable that stretches 19,000 km across Canada and links researchers and innovators throughout Canada and around the world. In addition to the network, CANARIE funds programs and tools that promote the evolution of a leading-edge digital infrastructure supporting Canadian researchers and innovators, fostering a growing, competitive, knowledge-based Canadian economy.
DiMi (Diagnostic Molecular Imaging)	The goal of the Network of Excellence "Diagnostic Molecular Imaging" - Molecular Imaging for Diagnostic Purposes - was to integrate multidisciplinary research for the development of new probes and multimodal non-invasive imaging technology for early diagnosis, assessment of disease progression and treatment evaluation. DiMi brought together genome-oriented scientists with the various actors of imaging science and clinicians dedicated to formulate novel diagnostic methods based on imaging.
EC (European Commission)	Information Communication Technologies research takes up the single largest portion of the EU's "Seventh Framework Programme for Research" (2006-2013). Funded projects bring together scientists, companies and others such as user communities from across Europe, pooling their resources and helping carry out an EU-wide vision of how technologies should be developed. DG Information Society & Media has also created GÉANT, linking researchers in over 3,500 research and education centres in 34 countries together across Europe. The world's most powerful research network, GÉANT creates massive economies of scale for European science and makes possible research that was previously impossible even to imagine.
Fondation Plan Alzheimer	The French government recently launched a 5-year national plan for research on Alzheimer disease and other related diseases. This plan of 2008-2012 is grouped around 3 axes covering social,medical and research aspects: -Improve the quality of life of patients and their families -understand so as to react -mobilise for an issue affecting the society
IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiative)	IMI is Europe's largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients. IMI supports collaborative research projects and builds networks of industrial and academic experts in order to boost pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. IMI is a joint undertaking between the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry association EFPIA.
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)	ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs. ITU allocates global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develops the technical standards that ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strives to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide.
WHO (World Health Organisation)	WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations. It provides leadership on global health matters, shapes the health research agenda, sets norms and standards, articulates evidence-based policy options, provides technical support to countries and monitors and assesses health trends.
e-ScienceTalk	e-ScienceTalk brings the success stories of Europe's e-Infrastructures to a wider audience, supporting grid and high performance computing reporting across Europe. e-ScienceTalk and N4U have signed a MoU to collaborate on dissemination of activities through the e-ScienceTalk dissemination channels such as GridCafe, GridCast, iSGTW and GridGuide and collaborate on many other dissemination activities.