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John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences

The JBL Center supports cutting edge biological, physical, and population-based epidemiological research to understand, interpret, and estimate the health effects of radiation to pave the way for effective preventive and therapeutic strategies.

Location

665 Huntington Ave, |
Boston, MA 02115

JBL Symposium XXV – 2022

2022 JBL Symposium

Genetic and Environmental Frontiers in Alzheimer’s Disease

Friday, October 14th, 2022

Virtual Symposium

Program

11:00-11:05 AM
Welcome: John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences Faculty
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:05-11:10 AM
Opening Remarks: Michelle A. Williams, ScD
Dean of the Faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:10-11:20 AM
Overview of the Day and Introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease in Public Health:
John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences Faculty
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:20 AM-12:00 PM
Dennis J. Selkoe, MD
The Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Difficult Molecular Assault on Alzheimer’s Disease: Some Light at the End of the Tunnel

12:00-12:40 PM
Keenan Walker, PhD
Director, Multimodal Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) Unit, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health
Identifying Peripheral Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Plasma Proteomics

12:40-1:20 PM
Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD

Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institutes of Health
Genome Instability and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Aging and Neurodegeneration

1:20-2:00 PM
Melinda Power, ScD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
Epidemiology of Air Pollution, Dementia, and Related Outcomes

2:00 PM
Closing Remarks: John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences Faculty
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

2022 Highlights

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Alzheimer’s disease causes, treatments examined at JBL Symposium

At the 25th annual JBL Symposium, held virtually at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on October 14, experts discussed some of the latest research on Alzheimer’s causes and…