Meet the members - interview with Bart van de Warrenburg In this new edition of “meet the members”, we interviewed Bart van de Warrenburg, neurologist at the Radboud university medical center. He will tell us more about his work in the hospital, within ERN-RND and his expectations for the network.
On our website, you can find information on the six Disease Groups covered in ERN-RND. This month, we put some of our information on leukodystrophies in the spotlight. There's much more where this came from, so visit the Disease Knowledge page on our website!
ERN-RND webinar, 8 March 2022, Brain Development in Huntington’s Diseaseby Peggy Nopoulos, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA. Sign up here.
EURO-NMD webinar, 10 March 2022, Muscle ultrasound, a biomarker tool for muscular dystrophiesby Nens van Alfen, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Sign up here.
ERN-RND webinar, 15 March 2022, Measuring disease severity in chronic progressive myelopathyby Marc Engelen, Amsterdam University Medical Center, the Netherlands. Sign up here.
ERN-RND Short Exchange Programme: call for applications!
Healthcare professionals (clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.)affiliated to ERN institutions (Full Members or Affiliated Partners) can receive organizational and financial support for secondments with clinical focus lasting up to four weeks in ERN expert centres other than their home institution, supporting the sharing of knowledge and stimulating collaboration.
More information about the programme can be found on ourwebsite.
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, secondments in the period of December 2021 to May 2022 will not be supported by the ERN Exchange Programme.
However,the online application portal remains open during the winter months and we highly encourage applications for secondment in the period from May to August 2022!
The German Rare Disease Centers have started a petition to the government for better funding to help people with rare diseases. They need 50.000 signatures.
Sign the petition here by clicking the button below!
