Eduardo Zimmer

How can culture help us understand brain health and dementia? At @FENSorg Forum 2026 in Barcelona, join us for the special event “Brain Health & Intersubjectivity: The Brain Film Fest.” We will explore how culture, cinema, storytelling, emotions, identity, and lived experience can open new ways of understanding brain health, ageing, and dementia. I will have the pleasure of chairing a conversation with Elena Subirà i Roca from the Brain Film Fest, Salvador Macip from Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center, and @erzimmer from Hospital Moinhos de Vento and UFRGS. 📍 Barcelona, Spain 📅 Thursday, July 9 🕛 12:00–1:00 p.m. More information: fens2026.abstractserver.com/…

Hope can emerge in the most unexpected circumstances. This past year has been one of the most challenging for me, both scientifically and personally. But ReDLat2 has just been awarded by the @NIH and @NIHAging. Over the next 5 years, the project will bring together 12 sites across Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru) and the United States (@UCSFmac) to investigate how environmental × genetic interactions shape aging and dementia, focusing on Alzheimer’s disease and #FTLD. We will examine the role of aggregate and individual-level social exposomes (Aim 1) characterize biological signatures (genetic, epigenetic and plasma markers) across familial and sporadic presentations (Aim 2) and develop computational models of exposome × biological interactions that shape multimodal aging clocks (Aim 3) Deeply honored to lead this initiative together with @durananiotz, @YokoyamaLabUCSF, & @brucemillerucsf. Grateful to the @NIH and @NIHAging, our Program Officer @Maryam84gh, the @ReDLat_Dementia program manager @godoymeugenia and team, the @BrainlatUAI workforce and especially all the site investigators who make this collaboration possible. @lttakada @aslachevskych @AdolfoMGarcia @Elisa_Resende_ @avilafunes @nanosanta @NiltonCustodio8 Many opportunities ahead for postdocs, clinicians, and scientists. Stay tuned.