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International Winter Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2012
Zuers, Austria
07 – 10 December 2012
The town of Zuers in the Austrian Alps provided a snowy setting for the eighth International Winter Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease. Scientists hunkered down for news updates on current trials and experimental treatments at all stages of the pipeline. Gabrielle Strobel summarizes select highlights on what's happening with immunotherapies, research targeting receptors, and synucleins, an effort to inject a phage therapy into the spine, and a project to bridge the treacherous gap between preclinical and clinical outcome measures by assessing how humans navigate across a physical space.
Zuers—Meeting Mixes Translational News and Debate
In a snowy mountain town in Austria, 75 scientists traded data and discussion of AD treatment approaches...
Zuers—Αlpha, Beta, Sigma: Which Will Yield New AD Drug?
New targets and compounds with which to hit them took up much space on the program...
Zuers—No Pill or Drip: Scientists Inject Phage Drug Into CSF
The meeting featured alternative treatment approaches that are trying to reach the starting line for clinical trials...
Zuers—Can Spatial Navigation Guide Clinical Trials?
What if prodromal AD patients could be tested before and after treatment in a human version of the Morris water maze?...