How do we cure Alzheimer’s disease?

Talk Description
Dementia is now Australia's leading cause of death, and Alzheimer's disease is its most common form. In the past few decades, scientists have mapped its genetics, pinpointed its early warning signs, and identified hundreds of risk factors. Yet, a cure remains stubbornly out of reach.

Eleanor Drummond is one of Australia's leading Alzheimer's researchers. She'll take on the tough questions: Are scientists chasing the wrong targets? Are treatments starting too late? Is Alzheimer's even a single disease, or several? She’ll take a hard look at what the science has missed, and where a new path forward might finally lie.

Speaker
Dr Eleanor Drummond is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Bluesand Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. She has dedicated her career to mapping the molecular changes that drive Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, with the long-term goal of finding new drug targets and diagnostic tools. The winner of the Alzheimer's Association Early Career Achievement Award and the Australian Dementia Network's Mid-Career Achievement Award, she has published more than 50 research papers.

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