The Global Association for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases will host its second annual International Research Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases in Omaha at the Scott Conference Center July 17-20.
IRCND will highlight exciting work across disciplines while promoting the exchange of information on neurodegenerative diseases in the following five themes:
- Microglial biology and neuroinflammatory processes
- Novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools against neurodegeneration; biomarkers
- Novel in vitro and in vivo models of neurodegeneration
- Phase separation, circular RNA, cytoplasmic DNA and exosomes
- Cellular senescence and neurobiology of aging; molecular predictors of successful aging
The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday, June 24. Accepted postdoctoral fellows and students will be eligible for young investigator awards based on scientific merit and the quality of their abstract and presentation.
"UNMC faculty and students can conveniently join without leaving town," said Xinglong Wang, PhD, GASND president and the endowed Harriet and Lazier Singer Professor of Experimental Neuroscience in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience.
As the co-founding president of the GASND, Dr. Wang co-chaired the association’s first conference in 2021 as a virtual event. Faculty and students from his department at UNMC will participate in the conference as part of their annual scientific retreat this summer.
"We hope that other UNMC departments will come out to participate, explore, share and learn," Dr. Wang said.
Department chair Howard E. Gendelman, MD, is working with Dr. Wang to develop a special theme issue of the journal NeuroImmune Pharmacology and Therapeutics that will publish the conference proceedings along with invited research articles stemming from the event.
"We are looking forward to the vigorous scientific discourse that is to come," Dr. Gendelman said.