Partnerships
We are excited to announce the Fall AEA Family Day (mini). Instead of a single, full-day, AEA Family Day, the AE Alliance and our program sponsor, EUROIMMUN offer several mini-days throughout the year. This gives us the opportunity to respond to topics that are important to you throughout the year. The Fall AEA Family Day […]
AE Family and Friends, Our hearts are filled with gratitude for your extraordinary efforts yesterday, contributing to our Research Network and spreading the word to your families, friends, and colleagues about this significant opportunity to invest in AE research through the Alliance. We set a $10,000 goal at the beginning of the campaign, and we […]
Today is Thanksgiving, a holiday for the family to come together and give thanks. This year will be different as not all families will be able to reunite for the holidays due to COVID-19. This situation may apply to our AE community even more so, as many of you are on immunotherapy or just finishing […]
The 2020 year has been unprecedented in so many ways. Though this pandemic has wreaked havoc in all our lives, our AE community has experienced the disruptions in profound and tangible ways, from interruptions in treatment to implementing particularly stringent measures to protect fragile immune systems. In partnering with you through your journey with AE […]
Our partner Euroimmun is organizing a great webinar that is open to all. The Euroimmun Academy is proud to present the upcoming “Neurology Webinar Series”. Join us on January 28th from 11-12:30pm EST for our first webinar exploring Autoimmune Encephalitis. For more information or to Register for this free virtual event please click here. This […]
The Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance awarded its first grant to the Autoimmune Brain Disease Program at Duke University Children’s Hospital. Co-directors of the Program, Dr. William Gallentine, Pediatric Neurology and Dr. Heather van Mater, Pediactric Rhuematology, accepted the grant and will use the funding to advance their ground-breaking, multidisciplinary clinic and related research. The $11,000 grant […]
Thank you EUROIMMUN for inviting the AE Alliance family to attend the EUROIMMUN Neuroimmunology Summit. All AE Alliance Clinicians and Support Network members are invited to attend this one-day virtual summit bringing together neurologic medical experts from across the United States. The topics to be discussed include: Updated guidelines for the diagnosis of neuroimmunology conditions […]
Dr. Matteo Gastaldi (C. Mondino National Institute of Neurology Foundation, IRCCS, in Pavia, Italy) was awarded a 2022 AEA Community Seed Grant to investigate the Cognitive teleRehabilitation in patients with Encephalitis of AutoIMmune etiology: CoRE-AIM study. Learn more about his research and how it will impact those affected with autoimmune encephalitis. The start date for the award is September 1, 2022. You […]
Dr. Leigh Sepeta & Dr. Elizabeth Wells (Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC, USA) were awarded a 2022 AEA Community Seed Grant to investigate the Predictors of Cognitive Outcomes in Children with Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. Learn more about their research and how it will impact those affected with autoimmune encephalitis. The start date for the award […]
When I was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis in 2010, I didn’t understand what that meant – and not just because I had a brain disease. My symptoms, ranging from paranoia and mania to the inability to walk or use my hands, seizures, and no longer being able to read or follow conversations, varied so […]