18TH DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Genetics of neurodegeneration: progress towards mechanistic treatments
18th DAVID SMITH LECTURE Join us in person or via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Professor Sir John Hardy is the Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at the UCL Institute of Neurology with over 23,000 citations. In recognition of his exceptional contributions to science, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009. In 2022 he was awarded a Knighthood in New Year’s honours in recognition of contributions to human health and dementia research. His research interests are in the genetic analysis of disease; historically, working on the genetic analysis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and, more recently, on Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders and, most recently on motor neuron disease.
Date: 30 May 2024, 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Sir John Hardy (Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology)
Organising department: Department of Pharmacology
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Organiser contact email address: carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )
Part of: Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Carolyn Thackrah