Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Investigator Award! The chosen winners presented their work at the 7th EAN Virtual Congress in June 2021. The award consists of free registration for the 8th EAN Congress, in Vienna, and an award certificate.
The list of winners is as follows:
K Ray Chaudhuri, London, UK
Quantifying the incremental economic burden of Advanced Parkinson’s Disease: Real-world Evidence from EU5 countries
Elisa Canu, Milan, ITALY
Longitudinal clinical, cognitive and neuroanatomical changes over five years in GBA-positive PD patients
Anastasia Bougea, Athens, GREECE
Competing endogenous RNA networks and circular RNAs in peripheral blood cells of patients with Parkinson’s disease
Claudia Strafella, Rome, ITALY
Gene association networks and miRNA-gene interactions reveal pathological pathways involving IL6 in Parkinson’s Disease
Čarna Jovanović, Belgrade, SERBIA
Optical coherence tomography: a potential biomarker of neurodegeneration in patients with Wilson’s disease?
Keith Kennedy, Barcelona, SPAIN
Multilayer network analysis relates molecular and clinical features of multiple sclerosis
Yi Shiau Ng, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Phenotypic features and disease progression of the m.8344A>G MT-TK gene variant: MERRF syndrome and beyond
Pietro Giuseppe Scamarcia, Milan, ITALY
The role of white matter hyperintensities in Parkinson’s disease progression and outcome
Ermelinda De Meo, Milan, ITALY
Effect of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on hippocampal subfields in multiple sclerosis patients
Silvia Basaia, Milan, ITALY
Motor cerebro-cerebellar networks breakdown among different subtypes of parkinson’s disease
Javier A. Membrilla, Madrid, SPAIN
Occipital nerve stimulation in drug-resistant chronic cluster headache: a third-level hospital experience
Klara Metzner, Jena, GERMANY
Investigating cytoskeletal integrity in the sensory nerve fibers in healthy individuals
Belén Rodriguez, Bern, SWITZERLAND
Orthostatic muscle excitability changes in neuropathic postural tachycardia syndrome
David Whiteside, Cambridge, UK
Time in the salience network predicts conversion in presymptomatic mutation carriers in familial frontotemporal dementia
Vito AG Ricigliano, Paris, FRANCE
Choroid plexus enlargement characterizes inflammatory multiple sclerosis
Paolo Preziosa, Milan, ITALY
Relevance of NODDI to characterise microstructural abnormalities of MS cortex and cortical lesions in vivo: a 3T study
Vardan Nersesjan, Frederiksburg, DENMARK
CNS and PNS complications of COVID-19: a prospective tertiary center cohort with 3-month follow-up
Aurelia Poujois, Paris, FRANCE
Neurological manifestations of Wilson disease in treatment-naive patients and in patients receiving standard of care
Melissa Sorosina, Milan, ITALY
Multiple sclerosis associated HLA variants affect the immunological T lymphocytes repertoire
Laura Cacciaguerra, Milan, ITALY
MR T2-relaxation time as an indirect measure of brain water content and disease activity in NMOSD