DNEP Translational Lecture and Workshop

The CLASS Network Co-ordinating Group consists of:  Bev Haggis; Gillian Burns; Maria Dominguez; Laura Hill; Sam Irvine; Sashi Palaniswamy; Louise Twelvetrees

CLASS Network Co-ordinating Group

A DNEP Translational Workshop with Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Alan J. Cross and interactive panel presentations and discussion.
Please book if you would like to attend the lunch and lecture.
And let us know if you would like to stay and join the workshop.
Alan Cross will present the DNEP visiting lecture from 12.30 - 13.30.  He will survey the current state-of-the-art from his long experience of drug discovery in academia and industry.
The Workshop willo have six short presentations from Manchester expert panellists (Neil Hanley, Bill Deakin, Peter Talbot, Rebecca Elliott, Jo Neill and Bo Yao) to stimulate discussion on the way forward e.g. cognitive and molecular subtyping, rodent-human translation, drug repurposing, stem cell models, the role of inflammation.  Bring your ideas too.
Alan J. Cross: The Search for New Treatments for Psychosis
"Despite 50 years of neuropharmacological research, efforts to discover new treatments for schizophrenia beyond D2 receptor antagonist-based approaches have failed.  Genetics/genomics promises to reveal new potential drug targets, although the path to new treatments is unclear and beyond the scope of current efforts.  Translational approaches are key to future succes:(i) genes to targets; (ii) drug candidates to proof of concept".
Biosketch
Alan Cross is a research neuroscientist focussed on psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease mechanisms.  He has extensive experience in industry and drug development.  Latterly he was head of the AstraZeneca Neuroscience Innovative Medicines Unit in Cambridge until 2016.  Currently he acts as an advisor to the National Institute of Mental Health, Lieber Institute of Brain Development and AstraZeneca Neuroscience and is Chief Scientific Officer at Cylenta Pharmaceuticals.  He leads and is involved in a range of collaborations with government, academic, biotech and privately funded organisations, ranging from genomics and iPS cell modelling to early clinical development and Phase 2 PoC studies.  He has over 200 publications in the area of neuropharmacology, neurodegeneration and neuropsychiatric disorders and inventor on four patents.

Lecture Theatre A, Zochonis Building

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