CNDR 2009 Annual Retreat

October 16, 2009
8:30am - 5:00pm
Biomedical Research Building 2/3Auditorium
421 Curie Boulevard
University of Pennsylvania

This year CNDR's Marian S. Ware Research Retreat will focus on "Current Research in Alzheimer Biomarkers."

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Here is the agenda for the day's proceedings:

8:30am	Breakfast Buffet in the Auditorium Lobby (BRB 2/3)
8:55am	Opening Remarks - Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD, MBA Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
9:00am	Speaker - Holly Soares, PhD Pfizer, Inc. Tentative title of talk: “Overview of CSF and Plasma AD Biomarkers”
9:30am	Speaker - David Holtzman, MD Washington University School of Medicine Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology Talk: “CSF AD Biomarkers: Correlations with imaging and value in diagnosis and prognosis of pre-clinical and early clinical AD”
10:00am	Speaker - Randy Bateman, MD Washington University School of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Talk: " Dynamic Changes In CSF Aβ In Healthy Individuals And AD Patients”
10:30am	Break and Visit Posters
11:00am	Speaker - Leslie Shaw, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Talk: “Validating AD Biomarkers in the AD Neuroimaging Initiative”
11:30am	Speaker - Harald Hampel, MD, MSc Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Professor and Chair of Psychiatry University of Munich, Germany Director, Alzheimer Memorial Center Talk: “Neurochemical markers of amyloid related mechanisms in AD”
12:00pm	Lunch and Visit Posters
2:00pm	Speaker - Douglas Galasko, MD University of California at San Diego Tentative title of talk: “CSF Tau And Aβ Dynamics Over The Lifespan”
2:30pm	Speaker - Tony Wyss-Coray Stanford University VA Palo Alto Health Care System Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Talk: ”Systemic plasma biomarkers for aginig and AD”
3:00pm	Speaker - Daniel Skovronsky, MD, PhD Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. President and CEO Talk: “Aβ Amyloid Imaging Ligands As AD Biomarkers”
3:30pm	Speaker - Christos Davatzikos, PhD Professor of Radiology University Of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Tentative title of talk: “Integrating Data From Neuroimaging And Chemical AD Biomarkers”
4:00pm	Closing Remarks and Visit Posters
5:00pm	Best Poster Award & Conclusion of 9th Annual Marian S. Ware Research Retreat

Questions? Please call 215-662-4708.

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

CNDR 2009 Annual Retreat

October 16, 2009 8:30am - 5:00pm Biomedical Research Building 2/3Auditorium 421 Curie Boulevard University of Pennsylvania

Event Information and Registration

October 16, 2009
8:30am - 5:00pm
Biomedical Research Building 2/3Auditorium
421 Curie Boulevard
University of Pennsylvania