Seventh Annual
Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute Symposium
Racing Toward a Cure
Friday, October 4, 2019
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Belfer Research Building
Starr-Greenberg Conference Center
Ruben Family Conference Center, 3rd Floor
413 East 69th Street
New York City
scientific presentations by
Giuseppe Faraco, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Dietary Salt Promotes Cognitive Impairment Through Tau Phosphorylation
Virginia Man-Yee Lee, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Neurodegenerative Disease Proteins:
A Common Mechanism for Disease Progression
Lennart Mucke, MD
UC San Francisco
Intriguing Links between Developmental and Degenerative Brain Disorders
Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD
Harvard University
Alzheimer’s Disease:
An Innate Immune Disorder?
The annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium highlight's groundbreaking research and discoveries by leading investigators and provides a platform for discussing the advances being made in research on Alzheimer's disease and other related neurodegenerative disorders.