Day 1 |
Wednesday 10 February 2021 |
9.20 |
Professor Stephen Smye (Leeds/KCL) 'Welcome and Introduction to the Physics of Medicine network' |
9.35 |
Professor Paul Matthews (UKDRI, Imperial) 'Interdisciplinary approaches to some of the grand challenges in neurodegenerative diseases of the brain' |
Session one |
Answering the questions that matter - the challenges of neurodegenerative diseases of the brain, chaired by Paul Matthews |
10.00 |
Professor James Rowe (Cambridge) 'Variants, variance and veracity: clinical challenges for dementia research' |
10.25 |
Professor Craig Ritchie (Edinburgh) 'Interdisciplinary approaches to developing new therapeutics' |
10.45 |
Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford) ‘Imaging in neurodegeneration – opportunities and challenges’ |
11.05 |
Speaker panel Q & A |
11.35 |
Refreshment Break |
Value |
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Session Two |
Interdisciplinary approaches to measurements and models, chaired by Karl Friston (before lunch) and John O'Brien (after lunch) |
11.50 |
Professor John Gallacher (Oxford) 'Multi-modal data integration and the UK Dementias Platform' |
12.10 |
Professor Henrik Zetterberg (UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL, and Gothenberg ) 'Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease; amyloid, tau and beyond' |
12.30 |
Dr Ivan Koychev (Oxford) 'Novel scalable technologies for pre-clinical detection of dementia' |
12.50 |
Dr Laura Parkes (Manchester) 'Novel imaging of microvascular dysfunction and its role in neurodegeneration' |
13.10 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Professor Zoe Kourtzi (Cambridge) 'Machine Learning for Predictive Prognostic Trajectories in Dementia' |
14.20 |
Dr Viola Priesemann (MPI Göttingen) 'What can statistical physics tell us about living neural networks?' |
14.40 |
Dr Neil Oxtoby (UCL) 'Top-down and bottom-up multimodal computational models of Alzheimer’s disease progression' |
15.00 |
Speaker panel Q&A |
Session Three |
Interdisciplinary funding opportunities, chaired by Professor Stephen Smye |
15.30 |
Wellcome Trust (Dr Sarah Lloyd), Alzheimer’s Society (Dr Fiona Carragher), Alzheimer’s Research UK (Dr Susan Kohlhass) and Rosetrees Trust (Dr Vineeth Rajkumar) 'Available Funding opportunities' |
16.00 |
Q & A |
16.10 |
Concluding remarks and meeting close from Professor Stephen Smye |
16.15 |
Virtual meeting social meet and greet - via Wonder (link provided within meeting) |