Speaker

Keynote speakers

Prof. Frank Jessen

University of Cologne

Speaker: Stage 2 of Alzheimer's disease: Evidence and relevance

Panelist: New horizons in Alzheimer's therapy - opportunities and challenges

Prof. Charlotte Teunissen

Amsterdam University Medical Center

Speaker: Body fluid biomarkers in the era of treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Panelist: New horizons in Alzheimer's therapy - opportunities and challenges

Dr. Gil Rabinovici

University of California

Speaker: Lecanemab in clinical practice: Lessons from the U.S. experience

Panelist: New horizons in Alzheimer's therapy - opportunities and challenges

Prof. Andreas Papassotiropoulos

University of Basel

Chair: New horizons in Alzheimer's therapy - opportunities and challenges

Dr. Anke Post

AC Immune

Panelist: New horizons in Alzheimer's therapy - opportunities and challenges

Dr. Tatjana Meyer-Heim

Stadtspital Waid, Swiss Memory Clinics representative

Panelist: New horizons in Alzheimer's therapy - opportunities and challenges

Prof. Marc Aurel Busche

University of Basel and Universitäre Altersmedizin FELIX PLATTER

Speaker: Early cellular and circuit-level vulnerabilities in Alzheimer’s disease

Prof. Gilles Allali

Leenaards Memory Center, CHUV

Chair: Underlying mechanism of dementia

Prof. Johannes Gräff

EPFL

Speaker: Memory traces on the chromatin

Dr. Tomas Ryan

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Speaker: Forgetting as a form of learning

Prof. Katharina Henke

University of Bern

Speaker: Unconscious episodic memory despite severe memory impairment?

Dr. Lucie Bréchet

University of Geneva

Chair: Memory traces

Parallel sessions

Dr. Alessandro Blasimme

ETH Zurich

Speaker: Early detection, brain health and ground-state prevention: Ethical and conceptual challenges for cognitive public health

Prof. Mauricio Avendano

University of Lausanne

Speaker: Public policy, cognitive health and dementia: Insights from natural experiments

Prof. Emiliano Albanese

WHO Collaborating Center, University of Geneva and Università della Svizzera italiana

Chair: Public health perspectives of dementia

Prof. Steffen Heinrich

Ostschweizer Fachhochschule

Speaker: Requirements for implementing physical activation approaches for people with dementia in care homes to maintain their everyday abilities

Dr. Christina Zweifel

CURAVIVA

Speaker: Care for people with dementia in Swiss nursing homes: Legal and financial framework and the diversity of practices

Prof. Stefan Klöppel

University of Bern

Chair: Care aspects of dementia

Prof. Philipp Homan

Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich

Speaker: Capturing cognitive deficits through language analysis

Dr. Rasita Vinay

University of Zurich

Speaker: AI-based voice assistants for early dementia

Prof. Michael Krauthammer

University of Zurich

Chair: AI and data analytics in dementia

Dr. Ansgar Felbecker

Inselspital Bern, Praxis St. Gallen

Speaker: Blood based biomarkers: the HbA1c of dementia diagnosis?

Prof. Paolo Arosio

ETH Zurich

Speaker: Monitoring neurodegeneration through brain-derived extracellular vesicles in biofluids

Prof. Julius Popp

University of Zurich

Chair: Blood-based biomarkers - Session organized by the Swiss Memory Clinics

Workshop sessions

Prof. Marina Boccardi

University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland

Speaker: Producing useful evidence – Translation methodology for implementation

Dr. Kevin Richetin

Leenaards Memory Center and Center of Psychiatric Neurosciences, CHUV

Speaker: Success factors for interdisciplinary collaboration in dementia research

Dr. Kelly Ormond

ETH-Zurich and Prof. at Stanford School of Medicine

Speaker: Developing patient centered and ethical dementia research

Dr. Tracy Laabs

Wyss Center

Speaker: A case study in translation: from research data to a start-up for a new dementia therapy

Prof. Andrea Volterra