The Brain Prize Meeting 2021
MIGRAINE AND RELATED CNS DISORDERS - COMMON PATHWAYS TO TREATMENT
With international keynote speakers including the 2021 prize winners, this year’s Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize Meeting aims to bring a broad range of researchers to discuss migraine, headache, and related CNS disorders.
Sessions will include classification, burden, comorbidities, genetics and treatment of migraine, headache related disorders.
The meeting is designed to promote the open exchange of ideas and knowledge and to foster the formation of collaborative networks among researchers in the field.

WHO CAN ATTEND
The Brain Prize meeting is a physical meeting open to junior and senior scientists in the field of basic as well as clinical neuroscience.
We encourage presentation of unpublished data during this meeting will not be recorded or live-streamed.
CORONA PASSPORT
From November 12th, 2021 the corona passport has been reintroduced in Denmark, and therefore all attendees must present a valid corona passport when you arrive at the venue at Comwell Borupgaard.
ABSTRACTS
Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts. All PhD students attending are required to submit an abstract. Among the submitted abstracts, we select the ones presented as short talks.
You can upload your abstract via our registration system, when signing up for the meeting.
DEADLINE for abstracts: November 18th, 2021
POSTERS
Poster size: A0 = 1189 (H) x 841 (W) mm – portrait orientation.
ORAL PRESENTATION
10 min presentation and 5 min for questions.
REGISTRATION
Online on a first come first serve basis - priority will be given to participants submitting an abstract.
https://www.conferencemanager.dk/thebrainprizemigraine
Please note that all participants are expected to stay for the entire duration of the meeting. This is important in order to create the opportunities and the time necessary for networking.
DEADLINE for registration: November 18th, 2021
REGISTRATION FEE
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First 10 undergraduates signing up |
Free of charge |
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Undergraduates |
DKK 1,500 |
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First 30 PhD Students signing up |
DKK 1,500 |
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All other participants |
DKK 3,000 |
The fee includes all meals and lodging.
The registration fee is non-refundable.
DANISH PUBLIC AFFILIATION
If you have a Danish affilliation, please remember to register the EAN number (EAN is an electronic payment system which is used by all Danish public authorities, including universities and hospitals)
The Lundbeck Foundation will charge the registration fee directly via EAN. Your registration is complete once the fee is paid and you have recieved a confirmation from the Lundbeck Foundation.
FOREIGN AFFILIATION OR BUSINESS
The Lundbeck Foundation will send an invoice (registration fee) by mail directly. Your registration is complete once the fee is paid and you have recieved a confirmation from the Lundbeck Foundation.
CERTIFICATION – ECTS points
The Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize Meetings are certified by the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark as a conference worth 1 (one) ECTS point.
Ph.D. students must submit an abstract to be eligible for the ECTS point, and participation in the full programme is required.
ABOUT THE LUNDBECK FOUNDATION
The Lundbeck Foundation is one of Denmark’s largest commercial foundations, worth over DKK 60 billion, and we award research grants over DKK 500 million each year to Danish-based, biomedical sciences research – primarily in the field of brain research.
We are the largest financial contributor to Danish public brain research, and we have an ambition for Denmark to be the world’s leading brain research nation. At the same time, we focus on raising public awareness of the brain and brain disorders.
To learn more about our activities, please go to www.lundbeckfonden.com
Each year the Lundbeck Foundation awards The Brain Prize – DKK 10 mio. personal research prize. The Brain Prize aims to reward and stimulate outstanding brain research and to stimulate Danish neuroscience through increased interaction with the global neuroscience community.
DISCLAIMER
At the Brain Prize Meetings we encourage communication and presentations of unpublished data. All participants must therefore agree that any information presented at the conference, whether in a formal talk, poster session, or discussion, is a private communication from the individual making the contribution and is presented with the restriction that such information is not for public use.
Prior to quoting or publishing any such information presented or discussed at a conference in any publication, written or electronic, written approval of the contributing member must first be obtained. This also applies to social networks, blogs or tweets.
Audio or video recording of lectures by any means, photography of slide or poster material, and printed or electronic quotes from papers, presentations and discussion at the meeting without written consent of the contributor is prohibited.
Each participant at a conference acknowledges and agrees to these restrictions when registration is accepted and as a condition of being permitted to attend a conference.
Information
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND PRIZEWINNERS
Jes Olesen | University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lars Edvinsson | Lund University, Sweden
Michael Moskowitz | Harvard Medical School, USA
Peter Goadsby | UCLA, USA
INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER
Peter Vuust | Aarhus University, Denmark
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Gisela Terwindt | Leiden University, The Netherlands
Messoud Ashina | Rigshosipalet Copenhagen, Denmark
Rolf-Detlef Treede | Heidelberg University, Germany
Franziska Denk | King´s College London, UK
Timothy Steiner | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Troels Staehelin Jensen | Aarhus University, Denmark
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
David Gaist | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Lars Ahrendt-Nielsen | Aalborg University, Denmark
Nanna Brix Finnerup | Aarhus University, Denmark
Rigmor Jensen | Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Denmark
Thomas Folkmann Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
SPONSOR
The Lundbeck Foundation is the sole sponsor of this meeting.
AUDIENCE AND LANGUAGE.
The meeting is in English