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Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the DuSRA Annual Meeting 2024, scheduled to take place on October 14th and 15th at the Wageningen Campus, Aurora Building. The meeting shares the latest results in ageing research in the Netherlands. The aim is to share results, connect with other ageing researchers and clinicians, [...]
In Cologne, from 30th of September till 4th of October 2024 a summer school for international bachelor and master students is being organized by stat-of-the-art aging researchers from several institutes in Cologne. International & national Bachelor and Master students from the field of Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedicine and other related Life Science disciplines are invited [...]
Dear DuSRA members, Please SAVE THE DATA of the Annual DuSRA Meeting!!!! This year we will meet in Wageningen on October 14 and 15. Yes, an overnight program this year! Registration, program and venue details are soon to follow. We hope to see you in October in Wageningen!
The Netherlands Consortium of Dementia Cohorts has performed a meta-analysis with 8 cohort studies to investigate the associations between depressive symptoms later in life and plasma markers for Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration. The Leiden Longevity Study was one of the participating cohorts. The results are published in “The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry” The [...]
A shift towards a more plant-based diet is promoted as healthy as well as sustainable. Whether this also applies to older adults is however less clear: On one hand plant-based diets may lead to energy deficits among vulnerable older adults and therefore negatively impact well-being. On the other hand, plant-based diets have been found [...]
