Dear friends and colleagues,
It is our special honor and sincere pleasure to invite you and your colleagues again on behalf of the Organizing Committee to the Seventh Rijeka Forum of Neurodegenerative Diseases organized by the Clinic of Neurology UHC Rijeka, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka and the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Rijeka of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Our goal is to present the latest developments and dilemmas in the field of neurodegenerative diseases with a special theme this year: “Mechanistic therapies – hype or hope” and other news in neurodegenerative diseases, to improve our daily practical and scientific work. The forum lasts three days, and the last day is dedicated to the mini-symposium: “Symposium: ”CNS disorders associated with COVID-19 and other viral infections” and young neuroscientists.
Extraordinary lecturers with lectures on the latest achievements in neuroscience and
neurodegenerative diseases are in the program and the registration for the forum is FREE. We sincerely hope that you will join us and recommend this meeting to your colleagues and support us.
Faculty
Professor Elena Moro, MD, PhD, Elected presidant of European Academy of Neurology, Movement Disorders Unit, Director, Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurological Rehabilitation and Forensic Medicine, Chair Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France
Professor Kailash Bhatia, FRCP Professor of Clinical Neurology Institute of Neurology, Queen square , London, UK
Professor Robert Živadinov, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging at Clinical Translational Science Institute, Director, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Professor Tomislav Babić, M.D., PhD, Professor, Neuroscience Franchise Worldwide Clinical Trials, London, UK
Professor Bettina Balint, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Niels Bergsland, MD, PhD,, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center / University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Professor Nenad Bogdanovic M.D., PhD, Professor, Department for Neurobiology, Caring Science and Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor Darko Chudy, MD, PhD, Department of neurosurgery, UH Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
David Bonifacic, MD, PhD, Ass.Professor, Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Professor Fran Borovečki M.D., PhD, Professor, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Academician Vida Demarin M.D., PhD, Professor of Neurology, International Institute for Brain Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Professor Michael G. Dwyer, Ph.D. Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center University at Buffalo State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Professor Pietro Fratta, MD, PhD, MRC Senior Clinical Fellow, Lady Edith Wolfson Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist , UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Ass. Professor Dejan Georgiev, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Professor Nir Giladi MD, PhD, The Yehezkel and Batya Sieratzki Chair of Neurology Director, Brain Institute, Associate Dean, Tel Aviv Medical Center – Ichilov Director, Aufzien Center for Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Professor Mario Habek, MD, PhD, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Sir John Hardy, M.D., PhD, Professor, Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at the UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Professor Nataša Klepac M.D., PhD, Assistant Professor, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Slavica Kovačić, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology, UHC Rijeka
Professor Paolo Manganotti, MD, PhD, Direttore Clinica Neurologica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Ospedale di Cattinara Trieste, Italy
Catherine Mummery , MD, PhD, Clinical lead for the NHNN (National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery) Cognitive Disorders Clinic, UCL Dementia Research Centre, London, UK
Professor Dean Nizetic M.D., Ph.D., Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Professor Gabriela Novotni, MD, PhD, University Clinic of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University “Ss Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia
Professor Borut Peterlin, M.D., PhD, University Clinical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Zvezdan Pirtosek, MD, PhD, University Hospital Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Tamas Revesz MD, PhD, FRCPath, Professor Emeritus in Neuropathology, University College London | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Professor Menno M Schoonheim, MD, PhD,Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands
Professor Maja Trost, MD, PhD, University Hospital Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Vladimira Vuletić, M.D., PhD, , Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Preliminary 3rd day program:
Symposium: ”CNS disorders associated with COVID-19 and other viral infections”
Actionable Biomarkers for NeuroCOVID and LongCOVID
Gregor Hutter, Medizinische Fakultät Basel, University of Basel
Metabolic drivers of T and B cell function in CNS pathologies
Glenn Bantug, Departement Biomedizin, University of Basel
“The Brain And Persitent Marks Of Early MCMV Infection”
Thomas Blank, Institute of Neuropathology, University of Freiburg
Glial Cell Adaptation to Latent Cytomegalovirus Infection in the CNS
Ilija Brizić, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
Immune cell crosstalk during neuroinflammation – role for cellular stress sensors
Marina Babić Čač, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
YOUNG RESEARCHER FORUM
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