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CNDR 9th Annual Marian S. Ware Research Retreat
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October 6, 2009, Volume 56, No. 06

The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) 9th Annual Marian S. Ware Research Retreat will be held October 16, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Biomedical Research Building II/III Auditorium. This year the retreat will focus on Current Research in Alzheimer Biomarkers.

The agenda includes:

8:30 a.m.: breakfast buffet in lobby

8:55 a.m.: Opening Remarks, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research

9 a.m.: Holly Soares, Pfizer, Inc., Overview of CSF and Plasma AD Biomarkers

9:30 a.m.: David Holtzman, Washington University School of Medicine, CSF AD Biomarkers: Correlations with imaging and value in diagnosis  and prognosis of pre-clinical and early clinical AD

10 a.m.: Randy Bateman, Washington University School of Medicine, Dynamic Changes In CSF Aβ In Healthy Individuals And AD Patients

11 a.m.:  Leslie Shaw, Penn Medicine, Validating AD Biomarkers in the AD Neuroimaging Initiative

11:30 a.m.: Harald Hampel, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; University of Munich, Germany, Alzheimer Memorial Center, Neurochemical markers of amyloid related mechanisms in AD

2 p.m.: Douglas Galasko, University of California at San Diego, CSF Tau And Aβ Dynamics Over The Lifespan

2:30 p.m.: Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Systemic plasma biomarkers for aging and AD

3 p.m.: Daniel Skovronsky, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc., president and CEO, Aβ Amyloid Imaging Ligands As AD Biomarkers

3:30 p.m.: Christos Davatzikos, Penn Medicine, Integrating Data From Neuroimaging And Chemical AD Biomarkers

Questions? Please call (215) 662-4708.

 

Related: Penn’s Neuroscience & Society Lecture Series—Cognitive Enhancing Drugs: Neuroscience and Society; Center for Neuroscience & Society: Panel of Advisors

Almanac - October 6, 2009, Volume 56, No. 06