In this newsletter we tell you more about our latest Campus meeting and our new platform for Citizen Science: Ik onderzoek mee. The second batch of Healthy Brain Study stool samples has been issued! We also share a vacancy. Please share with your network. Enjoy this newsletter!
In our campus meeting on the 17th of January, 45 people from 20 research institutes from Radboud campus met online to hear about the Healthy Brain Initiative from Roshan Cools and to get an update on the progress of the Healthy Brain Study by Lucy Overbeek.
A second batch of 225 stool samples has been issued. The samples have been prepared at the department of pathology and have been sent to MS Omics in Denmark for metabolite analyses.
Language skill is a key predictor of professional success and, more generally, of our functioning in society. The protocol of the Healthy Brain Study includes the ‘Individual Differences in Language Skills’ test battery, a collection of about 30 behavioral tests.
Citizens have a lot of knowledge and experience about their health and care. They are 'experience experts'. Through citizen science, we give people a voice to share their knowledge and experience with care providers and researchers.
Recruitment practical educated participants What's your idea?
As you know it’s a real challenge to recruit practical educated participants for our study. We have been contacting employers and (sport)clubs to promote the study among their employees and members. Have you got another idea? Share your ideas and send an email to: janet.denhollander@radboudumc.nl
To recruit more participants, we are looking for one or more promotion assistants. Do you know someone with an enthusiastic, positive attitude and a smooth chat? Share the job description now!
‘For the busy thirty-year-old it became even more difficult during corona to meet all the requirements’ This is the headline of an article written by a journalist of newspaper NRC. The journalist interviewed our MRI researcher Koen Haak and projectmanager Lucy Overbeek about our study.
A substantial part of the Healthy Brain Study participants are recruited by employers that support our study by (partly) compensating the hours of participants and/or communicating about the study. We are glad that the following partners support the Healthy Brain Study.