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Keynote speakers

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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


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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


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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


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Prof. Andreas Papassotiropoulos


University of Basel

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


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Dr. Andrea Pfeifer


CEO, AC Immune

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


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Dr. Tatjana Meyer-Heim


Swiss Memory Clinics representative

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


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Dr. Stefanie Becker


Alzheimer Schweiz

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


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Prof. Marc Aurel Busche


University of Basel and Universitäre Altersmedizin FELIX PLATTER

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


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Prof. Gilles Allali


Leenaards Memory Center, CHUV

Chair: Underlying mechanism of dementia


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Prof. Johannes Gräff


EPFL

Speaker: Memory traces on the chromatin


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Dr. Tomas Ryan


Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Speaker: Forgetting as a form of learning


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Prof. Katharina Henke


University of Bern

Speaker: Unconscious episodic memory despite severe memory impairment?


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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. Stéphane Pagès

Wyss Center

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


Prof. Andrea Volterra


Wyss Center

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