JPND: 2024 Research Call - Mechanisms and measurement of disease progression in the early phase of neurodegenerative diseases

2024 Call for Proposals "Mechanisms and measurement of disease progression in the early phase of neurodegenerative diseases”, promoted by the EU Joint Programme - Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND). Goals The joint transnational call has the aim of improving the understanding of disease mechanisms and advancing measurability of disease progression at early and pre-symptomatic stages of neurodegenerative diseases. Proposals submitted to this call must focus on one or several of the following neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias Parkinson’s disease and PD-related disorders Prion diseases Motor neuron diseases Huntington’s disease Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Proposals submitted under this call may include, but are not limited to, the following types of research: Unraveling the influence of molecular, physiological, psychological and social factors and pathways on disease progression as well as discovering new factors and pathways; Defining key regulatory steps affecting the disease onset and progression; Combining molecular, psychological, social and physiological markers in order to increase the robustness of the diagnosis; Harmonization of the use of novel technologies and clinical measures to increase reliability and reproducibility of disease detection and monitoring; Identifying molecular, environmental, social and behavioral modulators of disease progression with the ultimate aim of determining...