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.


Registration required by September 27

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