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Conference
Monday 15 May 2000
Location: the RIKEN campus, Tokyo
Last amended 10 April 2000
CONFERENCE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROSITY OF
The Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
The British Council
The British Embassy, Tokyo
Glaxo Wellcome kk
SmithKline Beecham
Yamanouchi Research Institute
CONFERENCE BACKGROUND
The problem of ageing populations has been growing in importance throughout the industrialized world, but nowhere more so than in Japan. The challenge for the healthcare profession, therefore, is how to deal with the physical and mental consequences of ageing. With regard to the latter, dementia presents one of the greatest challenges, and the symposia will cover the latest advances in the mechanism and causes of disorders of the Ageing Brain.
The Brain Science Institute of the RIKEN has agreed to co-host a conference on the Ageing Brain. We are happy to bring together leading specialists from Japan and the United Kingdom - two countries which are at the cutting edge of this area of research.
This is part of a sequence of Japanese - UK conferences on pharmaceutical - related issues which have been organized by the Asia-Pacific Technology Network, which will be running its 15th UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forum in Sendai, in the days immediately after this conference on the Ageing Brain. The previous two conferences in this sequence have been:
- Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery (1998)
- Leading Edge Developments in Medical Imaging (1999)
Further details about these conferences and the Asia_Pacific Technology Network can be found on www.aptn.org .
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Part One - Mechanisms of Brain Deterioration
09.25 - 09.35 Opening remarks Professor Ito or relevant person in RIKEN
09.35 - 10.05 Pathological Character of the Ageing Brain Professor H Yamaguchi, Gunma University, School of Health Sciences
10.05 - 10.35 Characterization of Senescence_Accelerated Mouse (SAM) Dr M Miyamoto. Takeda Chemical Industries
10.35 - 10.50 Coffee
10.50 - 11.20 Inflammation in the Brain Professor Hugh Perry, CNS Inflammation Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton
11.20 - 11.50 Excitotoxicity Dr Kazushige Ohno, Neuroscience Research, Pharmacology Laboratory, Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co, Tsukuba
11.50 - 12.10 Ageing and Oxidative Stress Professor Matsuo, Kounan University
12.10 -12.30 GSK-3beta and Ageing Dr A Takashima, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
12.30 - 13.20 Lunch
13.20 - 13.30 Formal Greetings from the British Government Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry
13.30 - 14.30 Alzheimer's Disease: Treating the Illness Rather than the Symptoms Professor Leslie Iversen, Wolfson Centre for Age_Related Diseases, King's College, London)
14.30 - 15.30 Non - AD type dementia Dr T Tabira, National Institute of Neuroscience, Demyelinating disease and Aging, Tokyo
15.30 - 16.00 Parkinson's disease and apoptosis Dr R Takahashi, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee
16.15 - 16.45 Mental disease Dr T Yoshikawa, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
16.45 - 17.15 Risk factor : ApoE Dr Katuhiko Yanagisawa, Head of Department for Dementia Research, National Institute of Longevity Sciences
17.15 _ 17.45 Multiple substrates of dementia in later life Professor J.A Edwardson, Director, MRC-Newcastle University Centre Development in Clinical Brain Ageing
17.45 _ 18.15 Therapy: beta-secretase inhibitors Dr D Simmons, Department of Neuroscience, SmithKline Beecham
HOW TO APPLY FOR A FREE PLACE
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors, there are some free places available. If you are interested in attending, please send your details (name, position and institution) to Dr Akihiko Takashima, Laboratory for Alzheimer's disease,
Brain Science Institute, RIKEN,
2 - 1 Hirosawa,
Wako - shi,
Saitama
FAX: (48) 4675916
Phone: (48) 4679704
QUERIES
If you have any queries about this conference, please email Louis Turner on louist@aptn.org