Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SAND (Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration)
Berichtszeitraum: 2019-11-01 bis 2021-10-31
SAND brings together expertise from several different research disciplines (such as vesicular trafficking, autophagy, chemical biology, neuroscience, computational sciences, systems biology and clinical neurology) and we expect that the extensive interactions and collaborations within SAND will bridge fundamental discoveries to translational research, hopefully paving the way for development of therapeutic approaches to treat NDs. This is important, as NDs are predicted to become the second leading cause of death in the next two decades with a continuously aging society. Thus, the results obtained in SAND will be of considerable interest to the research industry sector and for the clinical fields, in addition to the research community. Importantly, the training program of SAND will equip the ESRs with a valuable combination of skills essential to careers in academia or industry.