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Neurodegenerative Diseases: from Mechanism to Medicine
Friday, May 12, 2006
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Presented by the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair and the New York Academy of Sciences
Program
8.45 – 9.00am
Registration
9.00 – 9.15
Welcome: Adrian Ivinson and Mike Wolfe
Session 1: Chair, Dennis Selkoe
9.15 – 10.00: Keynote Address: Steven Paul, "Apolipoprotein E Alleles and Alzheimer's Disease: Therapeutic Implications."
10.00 – 10.35: Karen Ashe, "Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Loss in Alzheimer Mouse Models."
10.35 – 11.10: Robert Brown, "How Motor Neurons Get Mutated, Get Wild, and Get a Life."
11.10 – 11.30: Break
Session 2: Chair, Cindy Lemere
11.30 – 12.05 pm: Ted Dawson, "Parkinson's Disease - Looking Forward: Tomorrow's Therapies."
12.05 – 12.40: Mike Wolfe, "Targeting γ-Secretase for Alzheimer's Disease."
12.40 – 2.00: Lunch
Session 3: Chair, Bruce Yankner
2.00 – 2.45: Keynote Address: Paul Greengard, "Regulation of Biosynthesis and Action on β-amyloid.”
2.45 – 3.00: Connie Cepko, "Photoreceptor Development and Disease.”
3.00 – 3.35: Reisa Sperling, "Neuroimaging and Novel Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease.”
3.35 – 3.50: Break
Session 4: Chair Marcie Glicksman
3.50 – 4.25: Peter Lansbury, "Therapeutic Approaches to Parkinson's Disease.”
4.25 – 5.00: Dale Schenk, "Abeta Immunotherapy: Support for the Amyloid Hypothesis."
5.00 – 6.00: Reception