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CANDY 5th General Assembly Meeting

CANDY 5th General Assembly Meeting

​Last week, the 5th CANDY General Assembly took place in the beautiful Dutch city of Nijmegen. Since the beginning of the project, we have been planning to meet in the hometown of our coordinator, and finally could met there in person. On Monday, 15 January 2024, more...

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Recruitment of 10 MPX families at Karolinska Institutet

Recruitment of 10 MPX families at Karolinska Institutet

Recruitment completed at Karolinska InstitutetCongratulation to Sven Bölte and Terje Falck-Ytter and the whole team at Karolinska Institutet for completing the recruitment of 10 families for the Multiplex (MPX) study 👏👏👏 This is a big step forward for our the CANDY...

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2nd Periodic Reporting successfully accomplished

2nd Periodic Reporting successfully accomplished

On 31st December 2022 the second CANDY project period has officially ended. This means the first 3 years have been completed and the CANYD consortium had to submit a detailed progress report to our funding organisation, the European Commission. Although we encounter a...

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Prof Jan Buitelaar receives INSAR Lifetime Achievement Award

Prof Jan Buitelaar receives INSAR Lifetime Achievement Award

At this year's annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), 3rd - 6th May in Stockholm, our CANDY consortium was well presented and among the senior PIs also our Early Career Researcher had the chance to present their work and results in...

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Thomas Bourgeron publishes his first book

Thomas Bourgeron publishes his first book

"Des gènes, des synapses, des autismes - Un voyage vers la diversité des personnes autistes"Thomas Bourgeron, workpackage leader on Human Genetics in our CANDY project has just published his book "Des gènes, des synapses, des autismes - Un voyage vers la diversité des...

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CANDY 4th General Assembly Meeting

CANDY 4th General Assembly Meeting

In January 2023 we finally could meet for our first face-to-face General Assembly Meeting within our CANDY project. This special occasion deservs also a special location: Paris. After 3 years of online and virtual meetings, we were very happy that so many consortium...

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Prof Martien Kas is new ECNP President

Prof Martien Kas is new ECNP President

In October 2022, the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) announced within their annual Congress its new ECNP Executive Committee for 2022 - 2025. The commitee is led by Prof Martien Kas from the University of Groningen, who is also part of teh CANDY...

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CANDY Publishable Summary #1

CANDY Publishable Summary #1

CANDY has completed its first Periodic Report and its has been approved by our EIC-Project Office. Please find here the publishable summary of the first 18 months of our exciting project. Summary of the context and overall objectives Between 50 to 75 million children...

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CANDY 3rd General Assembly

CANDY 3rd General Assembly

After two years of restriction and no face-to-face meetings, we put all our hopes in the 3rd CANDY General Assembly Meeting ito finally meet in Nijmegen. The Hotel was chosen, the meeting room booked, however beginning of February we had to take the decision to -...

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Lucas Noldus becomes professor at Radboud University

Lucas Noldus becomes professor at Radboud University

Lucas Noldus becomes professor of Behavior, Information Technology and Innovation at Radboud University. Beginning of November, Lucas Noldus gave his inaugural speech as professor at Radboud University. In front of colleagues, friends and family he gave a presentation...

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ECNP Excellence Award 2021

ECNP Excellence Award 2021

Conference abstract of CANDY Partner University of Groningen has been selected as one of the best abstract at ECNP 2021. Congrats to Freja Østergaard and Martien Kas!Østergaard, F., & Kas, M. (2021). The sensory profile of Nrxn1α gene knockout mice based on local...

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CANDY Kick-off meeting as remote meeting

CANDY Kick-off meeting as remote meeting

The first CANDY General Assembly Meeting was held on 30th and 31st March 2020. Initially, we had planned a live-meeting in Nijmegen, but due to the covid crisis, we had to shift to an online meeting. The meeting was very successful and everyone agreed that remote...

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CANDY project has kicked off

CANDY project has kicked off

The European funded research project CANDY investigates the biological links between these neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring somatic illnesses and how treatment and monitoring of affected patients can be improved. The project has started on 1st of January...

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