When: May 2, 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Where: Alzheon, Inc, 111 Speen Street, Suite 306, Framingham, MA
Nobel Laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner will provide insights into the challenges of our quest to understand the biology of Alzheimer’s and will discuss potential solutions and novel therapeutic approaches to the disease.
Interested guests are asked to RSVP by April 26 to julia.barrett@alzheon,com.
Event is free and space is limited.
About the speaker: Stanley B. Prusiner, MD is a renowned expert in the field of neurodegeneration. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in 1997 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 for his pioneering work discovering prions, a new class of transmissible proteins that trigger protein misfolding in the brain to cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Dr. Prusiner is the Director of the institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Prusiner serves at the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Alzheon, Inc.