Abstract

09.15 Jo Jones

“The immunological implications of treating multiple sclerosis with alemtuzamab”

10.00 Stephen Price (Department of Neurosurgery, Cambridge)

“Treatment of gliomas: openings and obstacles”

10.45 Coffee

11.15 Rickie Patani (Institute of Neurology, UCL )

“Using induced pluripotent stem cells to understand development and disease of the human nervous system”

12.00 Lawrence Moon (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London)

“Delayed, subcutaneous treatment with neurotrophin-3 initiated 24 hours after stroke in elderly rats improves sensorimotor recovery”

12.45 Lunch

14.00 Sybil Stackpoole (Registrar in Neurology)

“Using stem cells to repair brain damage in multiple sclerosis”

14.15 Mike Zandi (Department of Neurology, Cambridge)

“Neuronal membrane autoantibodies and psychosis – unifying neurology and psychiatry through disease mechanisms”

15.00 Ilknur Ozen (Lund University, Sweden)

“Brain pericytes: new insight on their identity and potential role in brain repair”

15.45 Tea

16.00 Steve Sawiak (Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Cambridge)

“Whole brain morphometry with MRI in neurodegenerative disease models”

16.45 to be confirmed

“tba”