Alzheimer’s Disease – Pathogenic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Intervention
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide, with no cure currently available. AD pathogenesis is primarily driven by cerebral accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ), a small peptide and proteolytic cleavage product of amyloid-β precursor protein (APP). Elucidating molecular mechanisms that change Aβ levels and APP processing could provide new insights for understanding disease etiology; and development of interventions that attenuate amyloid pathology may provide useful therapeutics for AD.
Date:
17 September 2020, 15:00 (Thursday, 21st week, Trinity 2020)
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Speaker:
Assistant Professor Can (Martin) Zhang (Harvard University)
Organising department:
Department of Psychiatry
Organiser:
Liu Shi (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Psychiatry Seminars
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
Liu.Shi@psych.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Elizabeth Thomas