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Frontotemporal dementia UK Conference

Name: Frontotemporal dementia UK Conference
Start: 2024-05-15T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-15T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Ave, Cambridge, CB2 0QH

15/05/2024 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

FTDUK is co-ordinated by Professor Jonathan Rohrer (University College London), Professor James Rowe (University of Cambridge), Dr Kathryn Bowles (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Jenna Gregory (University of Aberdeen).

We run an Early Career Researcher prize for FTD researchers – this is open to any researcher who is a research assistant, PhD student or postdoctoral researcher within 5 years of completion of their PhD.

We have been running FTD UK since 2011 and after an absence during the Covid pandemic we returned in 2023 to run our 10th meeting. The meeting remains free to attend and will be in Cambridge this year.

We are very thankful to Alzheimer’s Research UK and the Guarantors of Brain who have kindly helped to fund the event each year through conference grants, and to the Alzheimer’s Society who have funded the Early Career Researcher Prize awards.

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2024 – 11th Annual Meeting – Cambridge – 15th May

Frontotemporal dementia UK Conference

9.30am	Registration
10.00am	Welcome to the meeting and introduction
10.10am	The surprising amyloid found in FTLD-FUS	Tammaryn Lashley (UCL)
10.30am	TBC	TBC
10.50am	Digital biomarkers and remote monitoring in FTD	Rhian Convery (UCL)
11.10am	Coffee break
11.40am	Models of TBK1-associated FTD/ALS	Owen Peters (Cardiff University)
12.00pm	Stress-induced nuclear TDP-43 pathology leads to STMN2 depletion: an early pathological event in FTD/ALS?	Anna Sanchez Avila (University of Sheffield)
12.20pm	Investigating subcellular and secreted interactomes of pathological tau: lessons from extracellular vesicles	Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
12.40pm	Lunch
1.40pm	Update on FTD and dementia consortia	FTD UK team
2.00pm	Mining the immune system for protective antibodies in neurodegenerative diseases	Ralph Minter (Alchemab Therapeutics)
2.20pm	Autologous HSC gene therapy for the treatment of FTD-GRN	Chiara Recchi (Orchard Therapeutics)
2.40pm	Coffee break
3.10pm	Alzheimer’s Society ECR prizes – introduction and award
3.30pm	Basic Science Prize for Early Career UK FTD Researcher sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Society
3.40pm	Clinical Science Prize for Early Career UK FTD Researcher sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Society
3.50pm	Summary
4.00pm	Finish