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