Team

Alzheimer's disease represents a global challenge that requires a coordinated response. Strengthening efforts by research collaboration and transdisciplinary partnership is the way forward to meet this challenge. That is why TRIAGE is set up within an international group of scientists with complementary expertise.

Bart De Strooper

Bart De Strooper

De Strooper is founding director of the UK DRI and also heads a lab at VIB-KU Leuven in Belgium.

Valentina Escott-Price

Valentina Escott-Price

Cardiff University (Dementia Research institute)

Jeroen Pasterkamp

Jeroen Pasterkamp

University Medical Center, Utrecht, NL

Rik Vandenberghe

Rik Vandenberghe

University Hospitals Leuven, BE

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Sarah Borrie
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Postdoc
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Team De Strooper
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Marta Canizares Luna
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PhD student
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Team Pasterkamp
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Stephanie Humblet-Baron
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Professor at KU Leuven
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Team Vandenberghe
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Emma Luckett
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PhD student
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Emanuela Pasciuto
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Postdoc
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Team De Strooper
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Annerieke Sierksma
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Staff Scientist
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An Snellinx
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Lab tech
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Team De Strooper
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Joshua Stevenson-Hoare
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Postdoc
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Team Escott-Price

A data ecosystem

All partners have set up a series of collaborations around the TRIAGE project, expanding the use of our human(ised) models to for instance biomarkers, the testing of antisense oligonucleotide therapy and the testing of novel drugs modifying for example the inflammatory response in microglia.

In parallel, we coordinate with other major initiatives in the field that follow deep-phenotyped Alzheimer's disease cohorts, such as the EPAD (European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia) consortium. This will allow us to gather a much larger amount of clinical, genetic and experimental data. Ultimately, our aim is to build a solid data ecosystem that will enable artificial intelligence approaches to AD risk prediction, monitoring and therapeutic decision making.