SAVE-THE-DATE: HD Information Evening, 7 April 2025

2024-12-20
Huntington Disease Center in Lund is inviting you to an information evening on 7 April 2025, 18.00-20.30 in the Belfrage lecture hall on BMC D15 in Lund. The evening will include update on clinical trials and current research status in Sweden and internationally, as well as talks on different aspects on Huntington disease: from social interaction to difficulty swallowing, dysphagia. Representatives from the national patients' organization (RHS) will inform about their activities, and there will…
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Watch the webinar on clinical trials!

2024-11-06
The webinar on clinical trials arranged by the European Huntington Association (EHA) in October, “Research insights: Latest updates on ongoing studies”, is now available online. You find it on EHA:s website
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Webinar on HD clinical trials

2024-10-21
On 23 October 2024, Åsa Petersén will be moderating the webinar "Research insights: Latest updates on ongoing studies", arranged by the European Huntington Association. The webinar will give information on ongoing clinical trials in the Huntington disease field. Representatives from companies with ongoing trials, or finalized, will be participating. The European Huntington Association is an umbrella organization for 43 national Huntington organizations, with more than 30 000 members around Europe. To participate in the webinar,…
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Petersén will give a talk on HD for young adults

2024-10-17
The Swedish patients' organization RHS is arranging a weekend on Huntingon disease for young adults on 18-20 October 2024 in Karlstad. There will be presentations on various topics, like genetic counselling, and the weekend offers an opportunity to network with other young adults and to share experiences. On Saturday Åsa Petersén will give a talk on HD research and will also present the latest updates in the field. For more information and the program, see…
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Welcome to Petersén’s talk on psychiatric health in HD

2024-10-01
On Wednesday 16 October, at 17.00-19.00, MultiPark Café is hosting an evening with lectures on "Psychiatric health in neurodegenerative diseases". Åsa Petersén will talk about "Psychiatric health in Huntington's disease". All talks are in Swedish. Link to the event on MultiPark's website
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RHS National meeting 2024

2024-09-16
The patients' organization, RHS, is inviting you to the national meeting in Gothenburg on 26 September 2024. Åsa Petersén will give an overview of the current HD research and the day will include information on guidelines for physiotherapy, and much more. The meeting will be held in Swedish. Sign up for the meeting latest on 16 September, by sending an email to info@huntington.se. Link to RHS website Program for Nationellt möte 26 september 2024 (pdf,…
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Kickoff for JPND project in Istanbul

2024-08-30
Together with researchers from Germany, Canada, Turkey and the Czech Republic, Åsa Petersén was awarded the JPND grant for the project Delineating the role of HTT Cis-Variants in the pathogenesis of Huntington disease. In Sweden the grant is funded by Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council, and Petersén was awarded SEK 2 500 000. To initiate the project, a kickoff meeting was held in Istanbul in early July 2024, where all project partners met at Koç University…
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Team TNU to EHDN & Enroll-HD 2024 in Strasbourg

2024-08-28
In September, the TNU research group and staff from the clinical HD team will participate in the conference on Huntington disease, EHDN & Enroll-HD 2024, in Strasbourg. The poster session will present the latest scientific findings in the HD field. Åsa Petersén is responsible for the entire program and she is also a member of the EHDN Executive Committee. At the EHDN and Enroll-HD 2024, the latest advances in basic, translational and clinical HD research…
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Webinar “Research Updates for the Nordic Countries”

2024-06-05
For the second time, the European Huntington Association/Moving Forward initiative for the Nordic countries will be hosting a webinar on research updates. The Webinar will be held on 11th June, from 18:00 CET to 19:15 CET. You need to register beforehand to be able to join. Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdeyupz4oH9KRCnkguo_KMuS0Y6… Åsa Petersén will be talking about what is ongoing in Sweden when it comes to HD research. All in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. All welcome!
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See Sofia Bergh’s talk on HD!

2024-05-03
In March 2024 Sofia Bergh, PhD student in TNU, gave two presentations on Huntington disease during the NMT Days. The NMT Days is an annual event, arranged by the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. A week of talks and demonstrations on a variety of topics show today’s research, and students in upper secondary school and their teachers are the audience. Sofia's talk is now available…
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