Speaker Lecture Titles

Speaker Lecture Titles

Partial list of confirmed speakers.

Name

Country

Lecture Title

Claudio A. Cuello Canada TBA
Johannes Attems UK DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE; SAME LEWY BODIES BUT DIFFERENT DISEASES
Kaj Blennow Sweden BLOOD AND CSF BIOMARKERS FOR AD – THE PATH TO IMPLEMENTATION IN CLINICAL ROUTINE
Mathew Blurton Jones USA EXAMINING THE THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF STEM CELL DERIVED MICROGLIA
Guojun Bu USA APOE-TREM2 AXIS IN MICROGLIAL RESPONSES AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Luc Buee France NANOBODIES/VHH, AN ALTERNATIVE TO ANTI-TAU IMMUNOTHERAPY
Frédéric Checler France SPREADING OF APP-DERIVED FRAGMENTS: NEW TOOLS, NEW DATA
Gaël Chételat France ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BRAIN LESION TOPOGRAPHY AND PROPAGATION
Ornit Chiba-Falek USA APOE-TARGETED EPIGENOME THERAPY: TOWARDS PRECISION MEDICINE IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Jeffrey Cummings USA THE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE DRUG DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF TREATMENTS AND TRIALS
Bart De Strooper Belgium PRESENILIN/Γ-SECRETASE ALLOSTERIC MODULATORS: TOO LATE FOR PRECISION MEDICINE IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE?
Marc Diamond USA TAU PROPAGATION INTO CELLS AND THROUGH NETWORKS
Karen Duff UK TAUOPATHY MECHANISMS IN FTD AND AD
Dustin Mergott USA DISCOVERY AND EARLY CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL ANTI-TAU THERAPIES AS THE NEXT GENERATION OF DISEASE-MODIFYING TREATMENTS
Nick Fox UK “PARADOXICAL” CEREBRAL VOLUME CHANGES ON MRI IN ANTI-AMYLOID IMMUNOTHERAPY TRIALS: POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS AND PLAUSIBILITY
Dan Frenkel Israel TARGETING METABOLIC CHANGES IN ASTROCYTES TOWARDS THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Giovanni Frisoni SWITZERLAND INTERVENTIONS FOR SECONDARY PREVENTION IN BRAIN HEALTH SERVICES FOR DEMENTIA
Luz Frolich Germany CLINICAL MEANINGFULNESS OF CLINICAL TRIAL DATA IN EARLY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
James Galvin USA PRECISION MEDICINE APPROACHES TO ENHANCE STUDIES OF BRAIN HEALTH AND THE RISK OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Angela Genge Canada THERAPEUTIC INNOVATIONS IN ALS
Klaus Gerwert Germany MISFOLDING OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AS EARLY BIOMARKER FOR PARKINSON`S DISEASE AND SYNUCLEINOPATHIES
Alison Goate USA GENETIC RISK FOR AD: WHAT THIS TELLS US ABOUT MECHANISM OF DISEASE
Gabriel Gold Switzerland MICROINFARCTS AND MICROBLEEDS: THE SEARCH FOR MECHANISMS
Christian Haass Germany POSITIONING MICROGLIAL FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION WITHIN THE AMYLOID CASCADE
Oskar Hansson Sweden USE OF NOVEL BIOMARKERS FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES IN CLINICAL TRIALS AND PRACTICE
Elizabth Head USA ALZHEIMER DISEASE IN PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME – THE FUTURE OF CLINICAL TRIALS
Susanne Hendrix USA AN OVERVIEW OF CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN THE PAST 2 DECADES WITH A FOCUS ON TIME SAVINGS
Michael Heneka Germany MICROGLIAL METABOLISM DETERMINES AMYLOID BETA CLEARANCE FUNCTION
Joachim Herz USA TARGETING ENDOSOMAL PH HOMEOSTASIS FOR AD PREVENTION
Makoto Higuchi Japan ASSOCIATION AND DISSOCIATION BETWEEN NEUROIMAGING-BASED AND PLASMA BIOMARKERS FOR AD
Henne Holstege The Netherlands ESCAPING DEMENTIA UNTIL EXTREME AGES: WHAT CAN COGNITIVELY HEALTHY CENTENARIANS TEACH US?
David Holtzman USA APOE3CH INFLUENCES THE MICROGLIAL RESPONSE TO AΒ PLAQUES AND SUPPRESSES AΒ-INDUCED TAU SEEDING AND SPREADING
Bradley Hyman USA DRIVERS OF DISEASE PROGRESSION
Costantino Iadecola USA NEUROVASCULAR DETERMINANTS OF NEURODEGENERATION: FROM MECHANISMS TO THERAPIES
Ole Isacson USA LIPID DYSHOMEOSTASIS MECHANISMS IN LEWY BODY DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Takeshi Iwatsubo Japan PREDICTION OF BRAIN AMYLOID PET STATUS BY PLASMA AMYLOID-Β42 AND P-TAU217 BIOMARKERS IN THE JAPANESE PRECLINICAL AD COHORT
Clifford Jack USA UPDATE ON NIA AA RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
William Jagust USA OPTIMAL OUTCOMES IN COGNITIVE AGING
Jung-Hwan Shin Korea DEVELOPMENT OF A VIDEO-BASED MONITORING PLATFORM FOR COMPREHENSIVE MOTOR SYMPTOMS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Miia Kivipelto Sweden PRECISION PREVENTION OF ALZHEIMER´S DISEASE: NEW DISCOVERIES FROM THE FINGERS TRIALS
Lynn Kramer USA NOVEL APPROACHES TO CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUTURE POTENTIAL OF SIMULATED PLACEBO
Frank Laferla USA MODELING LATE-ONSET ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN MICE
Virginia Lee USA MODULATORS OF TAUOPATHIES
Seung-Jae Lee Korea INHIBITION OF NEURON-TO-OLIGODENDROCYTE ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN PROPAGATION WITH AN ANTI-TLR2 ANTIBODY
Cynthia Lemere USA POTENTIAL MECHANISMS AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR ANTI-AMYLOID-INDUCED ARIA
Frank Longo USA MODULATION OF THE P75 NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR INHIBITS MICROGLIAL DYSTROPHY AND DYSFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH PATHOLOGICAL FORMS OF TAU
Daniel M. Michaelson Israel ASSESSMENT OF THE ANTI APOE4 EFFICACY OF THE RECENTLY DEVELOPED ABCA1 ACTIVATOR N1
Eliezer Masliah USA NEUROIMMUNE MODULATORY PATHWAYS IN THE THERAPEUTICS OF LEWY BODY DEMENTIA
Mark Mintun USA ADVANCES IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF AMYLOID PLAQUE CLEARING THERAPIES
Asuka Morizane Japan CELL THERAPY FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE WITH PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED DOPAMINERGIC PROGENITORS
John Morris USA EXPLORING RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE
Ulrike Müller Germany NEUROTROPHIC AND SYNAPTOTROPHIC FUNCTIONS OF SECRETED APPS AND ITS THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL FOR AD
Melissa Murray USA DEMOGRAPHIC AND GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS TO CORTICOLIMBIC VULNERABILITY IN YOUNG-ONSET AD
Manuela Neumann Germany ROLE OF TDP-43 PHOSPHORYLATION IN TDP-43 PROTEINOPATHIES
Henrietta Nielsen Sweden PERIPHERAL APOE SIGNATURES
Agneta Nordberg Sweden TRACKING AD SUBYPE TRAJECTORIES WITH MULTI-MODAL PET AND FLUID BIOMARKERS
Tiago Outerio Germany MODELING AND IMAGING ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AGGREGATION: INSIGHTS INTO MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF DISEASE
Ronald Petersen USA ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BIOMARKERS IN THE COMMUNITY
Werner Poewe Austria PD RISK SCREENING – WHERE DO WE STAND
Marco Prado Canada CHOLINERGIC MECHANISMS IN DEMENTIA
Gill Rabinovici USA IMPLEMENTING BIOMARKERS IN REAL WORLD MEMORY CARE: LESSONS FROM THE IDEAS STUDY
Laura Ranum USA INCREASED ALZHEIMER’S RISK ASSOCIATED WITH INTRONIC CASP8 REPEAT EXPANSION
Philip Scheltens The Netherlands AD THERAPY; WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE??
Michael Schlossmacher Canada GENERATION OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AGGREGATES IN HUMAN OLFACTORY EPITHELIA INCLUDES MUCUS-PRODUCING GLANDS
Menachem Segal Israel PRESENILIN-1 AFFECTS MITOCHONDRIA IN CULTURED HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS: FUNCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Jie Shen USA LRRK2 MUTATIONS AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Tamara Shiner Israel GENETIC FACTORS IN CLINICAL, IMAGING AND BLOOD BIOMARKERS IN DLB
Sam Sisodia USA THE GUT MICROBIOME AND IMPACT ON AD-TYPE NEUROPATHOLOGY
Beka Solomon Israel DOWN-REGULATION OF BACE1 ACTIVITY WITHOUT AFFECTING PROCESSING OF OTHER SUBSTRATES MAY HAVE A CLINICAL VALUE FOR TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Mona Soreq Israel SEX‐SPECIFIC DECLINES IN CHOLINERGIC‐TARGETING TRNA FRAGMENTS IN THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Maria Grazia Spillantini UK ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN MODELS
Peter St. George-Hyslop Canada TREM2 SIGNALLING PATHWAYS IN MICROGLIA AND PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS
Stephen Salloway USA APPROPRIATE USE OF AMYLOID-LOWERING TREATMENTS
Beth Stevens USA MODELING MECHANISMS OF AD RISK AND RESILIENCE
Fabrizio Stocchi Italy HOW PARKINSON’S DISEASE TREATMENT WILL CHANGE IN THE NEXT FUTURE
Tom Sudhof USA ABETA AND SYNAPSES: A CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP
Malu Tansey USA TARGETING AGE-RELATED IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION TO REDUCE RISK OF NEURODEGENERATION
Rudy Tanzi USA THE ROLE OF PERIPHERAL CELLS AND FACTORS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PATHOGENESIS
Charlotte Teunissen The Netherlands IDENTIFICIATION OF NOVEL PROTEINS AND PROTEIN PANELS IN BODY FLUIDS BY PROTEOMICS FOR VARIOUS DEMENTIA DIAGNOSES (FAMILIAL AD, AD, DLB, FTD, A+SCD). A STRATEGY TOWARDS CLINICAL USE
Li-Huei Tsai USA NEUROIMMUNE INTERACTIONS AT THE BRAIN BORDERS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Robert Vassar USA LOW-LEVEL BACE1 INHIBITION FOR ALZHEIMER DISEASE
Michael Weiner USA COMMUNITY ENGAGED RESEARCH  USING DIGITAL MARKETING, WEB BASED ASSESSMENTS, AND BLOOD TESTS TO RECRUIT AND SCREEN UNDER REPRESENTED PEOPLE INTO THE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE NEUROIMAGING INITIATIVE (ADNI)
Cheryl Wellington Canada TBA
Donna Wilcock USA UNDERSTANDING MECHANISMS OF ANTI-AMYLOID IMMUNOTHERAPY-MEDIATED ARIA EVENTS
Bengt Winblad SWEDEN DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL MOLECULES TARGETING TAU AND OTHER PROTEINS IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE
Henrik Zetterberg Sweden NOVEL BIOFLUID-BASED BIOMARKERS FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE PROCESSES ACROSS DEMENTIAS
Berislav Zlokovic USA BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER AND VASCULAR SYSTEM AS TREATMENT TARGETS FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND ALZHEIMER’S’ DISEASE