Day 3–Expo Day @ 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | November 19, 2015

(If you did not reg­is­ter, you can track the pro­ceed­ings, and con­tribute too, via Twit­ter: #sharpbrains2015) Dear Sum­mit par­tic­i­pant, Amaz­ing cou­ple of days…and there’s more :-) Here are the instruc­tions to join Day 3–Expo Day today, start­ing at 8.15am US Pacif­ic Time (San Fran­cis­co, CA time)/ 11.15am East­ern Time. –> Login Instruc­tions for Reg­is­tered Sum­mit Par­tic­i­pants The Agen­da for today:

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At the frontier of Big Data and Brain Health

By SharpBrains | November 6, 2015

Please con­sid­er join­ing us at Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence (Novem­ber 17–19th), which will fea­ture many fan­tas­tic ses­sions such as this one: Tues­day Novem­ber 17th, 2.30 — 4.00 pm. At the fron­tier of Big Data and Brain Health. Dur­ing this ses­sion we will explore cut­t­ing-edge ini­tia­tives to accel­er­ate research & devel­op­ment via brain sim­u­la­tions and crowd­sourcing, and to improve…

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Cogniciti and Johnson & Johnson Innovation partner to improve cognitive screenings for early identification of dementia

By SharpBrains | September 16, 2015

Cog­nic­i­ti Announces Col­lab­o­ra­tion with John­son & John­son Inno­va­tion to Eval­u­ate Online Cog­ni­tive Screen­ing to Iden­ti­fy Indi­vid­u­als at Risk for Demen­tia (Bay­crest press release): “Cog­nic­i­ti Inc., the Toron­­to-based devel­op­er of a 20-minute online cog­ni­tive test for adults con­cerned about mem­o­ry changes, today announced a col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment with Janssen Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, Inc. to eval­u­ate online screen­ing strate­gies for…

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Thank You, Leading Sponsors @ 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 14, 2015

Please join us in thank­ing these lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions for sup­port­ing the upcom­ing  2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th). In alpha­bet­i­cal order, our heart­felt appre­ci­a­tion goes to the AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty, the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion, the Arrow­smith Pro­gram, Bay­crest, Brain­Base­line, Cog­niFit, Peak and Roset­ta Stone (and more to fol­low). Thank you! Gold Sponsors …

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New $100M investment in Canada to accelerate brain health innovation

By SharpBrains | April 22, 2015

. Brain research at Toron­to health cen­tre gets $100M fund­ing boost in fed­er­al bud­get (Nation­al Post): “Ottawa is help­ing fund a $100 mil­lion ini­tia­tive with Toronto’s Bay­crest Health Sci­ences to devel­op a nation­al hub for brain research…“Past gen­er­a­tions of adults said they were most con­cerned about can­cer or heart dis­ease. This gen­er­a­tion says they’re most concerned…

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