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The combined issue of dementia and age-related hearing and vision problems is to be tackled by a consortium headed by The University of Manchester. The SENSE-Cog project involves, among others, Cécile Delcourt (LEHA – team leader in the BPH Research Center) as the leader of the Bordeaux campus project, the EUCLID platform as the leader […]

Despite the concern of an explosion of dementia cases in an aging population over the next few decades, a new study, based on data from the Framingham Heart Study* (FHS), and carried out in collaboration between Inserm researchers at the Bordeaux School of Public Health / Inserm in France and Boston University School of Medicine […]

Rodolphe Thiebaut,deputy director oh the research center U897 and director of the team SISTM, is the coordinator of the EBOVAC2 project, which launches its recruiting campain on the 8th of december. The project, a collaborative effort, funded under a grant from the Innovative Medicines Initiative Ebola+ programme. EBOVAC2 was launched in response to the Ebola […]

From the 28th of September to the 2nd of October, Bordeaux welcomes “Neurepiomics”, the first summer school about neuroepidemiology in the “omics” era. Organised by Pr. Stephanie Debette, research director at the center, and Pr. Christophe Tzourio, head of the research center, this first edition is designed in close partnership with Pr. Sudha Seshadri, from […]

A team from the Research center Inserm U897 “Epidemiology and biostatistics” based in Bordeaux – France set out to determine the association between use of lipid lowering drugs (statins or fribates) in healthy older people and long term risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. The BMJ (British medicine journal) published a press release about […]

The ERIAS “Computer research applied to health” emerging team from the research center U897 “Epidemiology and biostatistics” is the winner of the Practical application prize, in the Method category, awarded by an international jury of experts selected by Orange for the 2nd edition of its challenge “Data for Development” (D4D) dedicated this year to Senegal*. […]