26 February 2024
Today, Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen, the Ambassador of the NO-AD ‘User Representative Comittee’, with his wife Marion Tur Eliassen, visited the Evandro Fang Laboratory and Epi-Gen department at the Akershus University Hospital, Norway.
Fang introduced his laboratory projects as well as the translational studies they are working on to Eliassen. Master student Nikolai Jensrud Skaar showed Eliassen on what laboratory systems the Fang lab are using to screen drug candidates against Alzheimer’s disease. PhD student Tomás Schmauck-Medina, MSc Neuroscience (UCL, UK), gave a detailed demonstration on how to use the state-of-art techniques, such as confocal microscopy, to check neuronal damage, in Alzheimer’s disease tissues.
The visit enhanced mutual understanding and propelled further engagement of Alzheimer’s disease patients and their family members to Alzheimer’s disease laboratory research activities. Eliassen will be giving a welcome speech in the 2nd Norway-UK meeting on ageing and dementia on 22 April 2024 in Domus Medica (see preliminary programm below).
Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen participated in the award-winning TV series (filmed by the Norwegian national TV station NRK) ‘Dementia Choir’ (reference) Season 1 and Season 2. Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen are working with NO-AD coordinators Drs. Evandro Fei Fang (UiO) and Asgeir Kobro-Flatmoen (NTNU) in disseminating the latest scientific discoveries of dementia to the general population.
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