SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY SEMINAR
Speaker: Colin L Masters, Head of the Neurodegeneration Division and Laureate Professor, Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Host: Prof Kaj Blennow (kaj.blennow@neuro.gu.se)
A light lunch is offered by the venue from 11:30 – first come first served basis.
Colin Masters has focused his career on research in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. His work over the last 35 years is widely acknowledged as having had a major influence on Alzheimer’s disease research world-wide, particularly the collaborative studies conducted with Konrad Beyreuther in which they discovered the proteolytic neuronal origin of the Aβ amyloid protein which causes Alzheimer’s disease. This work has led to the continued development of diagnostics and therapeutic strategies. More recently, his focus has been on describing the natural history of Alzheimer’s disease as a necessary preparatory step for therapeutic disease modification.
