The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) – which is focused on global game-changing dementia research working with the Scottish Funding Council’s Brain Health Alliance for Research Challenges (ARC) proudly announces the first-of-its-kind Data Challenge Summit which will unveil the results stemming from the Bio-Hermes-001 Biomarker Data Challenge.
The research competition was launched in February of 2024 to allow researchers early access to GAP’s Bio-Hermes-001 Biomarker dataset, the most comprehensive set of dementia biomarker data from ground-breaking early blood testing studies for Alzheimer’s disease. Since last year, more than 40 research teams rose to the challenge, and the results of the first round of completed projects will be unveiled at the Data Challenge Summit on Friday, March 21, 2025.
WHEN: Friday, March 21, 2025, 10 AM GMT
WHERE: Free virtual registration
WHO: The Brain Health ARC, supported by Race Against Dementia, the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation, Researchers participating in the Data Challenge Summit
WHAT: From using artificial intelligence to predicting dementia, to looking at the effect of frailty or vascular disease on dementia biomarkers, the Data Summit will showcase new and exciting research concepts taking place in the brain health space today. The agenda is available here.
GAP can arrange interviews with host organizations or participants in this first-of-its-kind competition.
For more information on the Data Challenge visit https://www.brainhealtharc.com/data-challenge.html.
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About the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP)
The nonprofit Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation was founded to speed the delivery of Alzheimer’s treatments with a commitment to promoting diversity in clinical research, as well as lowering the cost and improving the efficacy of ADRD clinical trials to ensure that no one is left behind. As part of its mission, GAP supports more than 100 clinical research sites worldwide through study start-up and recruitment activities, promoting diversity in research studies, and giving attention to the citizen scientists who make research possible.
About the Brain Health ARC:
The ambition of the Brain Health ARC is to utilise Scotland’s world leading research capacity to educate the public, influence policy, and find solutions to the societal challenges associated with poor brain health. The ARC aims to challenge the current, arbitrary silo thinking that separates research in areas such as dementia, head injury, stroke, and others while seizing unique opportunities to work for, and with, our ageing population to improve their health