Annual National University of Singapore / University of Cambridge Symposium
9:00 Registration
9:20 Welcome from Vice Chancellor. Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
9.:30 Reducing the Dementia Epidemic: A Public Health Perspective. Carol Brayne
10:00 Changes in lifestyle factors and subsequent risk of stroke. Koh Woon Puay
10:30 Is late life depression a brain disease? John O’Brien
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00 Diminished synaptic transport – an early contributor to aging and neurodegeneration. John Chua
11:45 Common Pathways to Neurodegeneration; The Unfolded Protein Response. Giovanna Mallucci
12:15 Junior presentations by Singapore researchers working in Cambridge.
Sean Chia - A chemical kinetics strategy for the systematic development of small molecules to inhibit specific microscopic steps of Aβ42 aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease
Muhammad Kaiser – Modelling White Matter Diseases with HiOPCs
Rhea Tan – Mechanisms of Small Vessel Disease Stroke – New Insights from Genetics
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Covert strokes and cognition. Christopher Chen
14:30 Imaging Mechanisms of Cognitive Decline in Vascular Cognitive Impairment. Hugh Markus
15:00 MRI as a biomarker for dementia. Elijah Mak
15:15-15:45 Tea
15:45 Aging, Alzheimer, and neurodegeneration: from cell biology to animal models. Ed Koo
16:15 Mitochondrial mechanisms in neurodegeneration. Patrick Chinnery
