Interdisciplinary Ageing and Dementia Centre (IDeAC) Presentations:

Programme:

13.00-14.00: Registration and lunch

14.00- 14.10. Roxana Carare MD, PhD. Welcome and introducing IDEAC.

14.10-14.40 Roxana Carare MD, PhD. Intramural periarterial drainage of proteins from the brain as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease.

14.40-15.40. Keynote lecture. Masafumi Ihara MD, PhD. Department of Neurology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular: Cilostazol treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

15.40-16.00: Tea break

16.00-16.30: Satoshi Saito MD, PhD. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry: Cnm-expressing Streptococcuse mutans is a novel risk factor for cerebral small vessel diseases.

16.30-17.00: Yoshiki Hase MD, PhD. Institute Ageing, Newcastle University, UK: Stroke Injury, Environmental Enrichment and Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion – Potential Interventional Strategies for Vascular and Age-related Dementia

17.00-17.30: Charlotte Stuart, PhD Student: Neopterin, a novel biomarker for the severity of multiple sclerosis.

17.30-18.00: Stefan Mitrasinovic, Academic Clinical Fellow, Surgery, University Hospital Trust/University of Southampton. Pathways for drainage of cerebrospinal fluid in experimental rodents and humans

18.00-18.30: Hiroki Cook, undergraduate student in Physics, Medical Physics group. Identifying vasomotion in humans. A study in neurosurgery and physics.

18.30- Close.

Seminar: Interdisciplinary Ageing and Dementia Centre