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Regional Awards Luncheon and Scientific Panel | Boston

Start Time: October 27, 2015

Harvard Club - Back Bay

374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

11 am - 3:30 pm  |  Complimentary Admission


11 am |  Check In and Reception


12 pm  |  Awards Luncheon  

honoring


Roger Nitsch, MD
Founder and President,
Neurimmune

Chairman’s Award

George M. Martin, MD
Professor of Pathology Emeritus,
University of Washington

School of Medicine
Honorary Leadership Award

Leonard Guarente, PhD
Novartis Professor of Biology,
Massachusetts Institu
te
of Technology
Irving S. Wright
Award of Distinction

Amy Wagers, PhD
Professor of Stem Cell
and Regenerative Biology,
Harvard University and
Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star
Award in Aging Research

More on AFAR's Awards of Distinction and Scientific Awards here.

 


Remarks

Ilise Lombardo, MD
Vice President of Clinical Research
Axovant Dementia Solutions


1 pm  |  Panel 


 The Future of Alzheimer's Disease:
Translation and Therapeutics

featuring


Rudy Tanzi, PhD

Joseph P. and
Rose Kennedy
Professor of Neurology,
Harvard University

Moderator


Steven E. Arnold, MD
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General
Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Roger Nitsch, MD

Founder and President,
Neurimmune

Dennis Selkoe, MD

The Vincent and
Stella Coates Professor
of Neurological Diseases,
Harvard Medical School

Jeff Sevigny, MD

Senior Medical Director,
Clinical Development,
Biogen

Li-Huei Tsai, PhD

Professor and Director,
Picower Institute for
Learning and Memory,
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology

AFAR wishes to thank the following sponsors

whose generosity has made this event possible

 

   
  Charley Beever  
  Diana Jacobs Kalman  
  The Elbrun and Peter Kimmelman Family Foundation, Inc.  
  The Martin Foundation for Biomedical Research  
  Richard and Ronay Menschel  
  Diane A. Nixon  
  Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care
New York University
 
  John B. Rhodes  
  * as of 10.07.15  

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