医学国际学术会议

1、The theme of the conferencelA Truce in the BAP-tist/Tau-ist War? Progress Toward A Unified Understanding of Alzheimers Disease Basic informationlDate: 10 December 2013lLocation: The New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade CenterlRegistration Pricing Member$30 Student/Postdoc Member$15 Nonmember (

2、Academia)$65 Nonmember (Corporate)$85 Nonmember (Non-profit)$65 Nonmember (Student / Postdoc / Resident / Fellow)$45 Describtion Alzheimers disease is a public health crisis that will grow to devastating proportions over the next several decades unless effective therapies are found. Two hallmark pat

3、hologies in the brain have characterized the disease since it was first described over 100 years ago by Alois Alzheimer. The first is the neuritic plaque,The second is the neurofibrillary tangle.Vigorous debates as to which pathology is more relevant to disease has in addition led to what has been r

4、eferred to as the BAP-tist/Tau-ist wars, further isolating these biologies. The goal of this symposium is to revisit the old BAP-tist/Tau-ist schism and ask whether two fields of research on one disease can offer each other mechanistic clues in the quest to find effective therapies. Agenda 8:30 AM R

5、egistration and continental breakfast 9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction 9:10 AM Two speeches 10:30 AM Coffee break 11:00 AM Two speeches 12:20 PM Lunch break 1:20 PM two speeches 2:40 PM Coffee break 3:10 PM two speeches 4:30 PM Networking reception 5:30 PM CloseOrganizerslKen Jones, PhD Forest Resea

6、rch Institute lRobert Martone Covance Biomarker Center of Excellence lRobert B. Nelson, PhD Lundbeck Research USA lJennifer Henry, PhD The New York Academy of Sciences SpeakerslFrank M. LaFerla, PhD ;University of California, Irvine lSylvain E. Lesn, PhD, MSc:University of Minnesota lBingwei Lu, PhD

7、: Stanford University School of MedicinelLennart Mucke, MD:Gladstone Institute of Neurological DiseaselRalph A. Nixon, MD, PhD: Nathan Kline Institute lFranck Polleux, PhD: Columbia University Terrence Town, PhD: University of Southern California Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD:Stanford University School of Me

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