Program and Speakers

Date: Thursday, June 5th, 2025.
Location: The Raya and Josef Jaglom Auditorium, George S. Wise Senate Building, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
8am-8:50am: Registration
8:50am-9am: Brief opening remarks.

9:00am: 1. Michal Schwarz (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel). Defeating Alzheimer’s disease by harnessing systemic immunity.
9:30am: 2. Lindsay Farrer (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts). Genetics of Alzheimer’s disease in Jews and Israeli-Arabs.
10:00am: 3. Mark Gluck (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA). Lifestyle, genetic, and environmental influences on Alzheimer’s risk in older African Americans.

10:30am: Midmorning Break: Coffee, tea, sweets

11:00am: 4. Mary Sano (Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA). Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders: What do we mean by “related disorders”?
11:30am: 5. Illana Gozes (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel). Sex influence on Alzheimer’s disease tau pathology and drug development.
12:00pm: 6. Amos Korczyn (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel). Alzheimer’s is a heterogeneous syndrome, not a disease.

12:30pm-2pm. Luncheon

2:00pm: 7. David Bennet (Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Illinois, USA). Charting a path to precision medicine for Alzheimer’s disease.
2:30pm: 8. Michal Beeri (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA). The role of the glycoproteome in cognitive decline

3:00pm: Afternoon Break: Coffee, Tea, Sweets

3:30pm: 9. Hermona Soreq (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel). Transfer RNA fragments as essential fine tuners of brain functioning and Alzheimer’s disease decay
4:00pm: General Discussion: Future Directions for US-Israel Alzheimer’s Disease Collaboration and Cooperation

4:30pm-6:30pm: Poster Session/Job Fair/Wine & Cheese Reception