This years Wade Lecture we will be welcoming Professor Joanna Wardlaw CBE, for her talk Neuroimaging and its spectacular insights into brain health and disease. The lecture will be hosted by Professor Roxi Carare. Professor Carare is Head of School at the University of Southampton with research interests in dementia and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Event date: Tuesday 29 October 2024
Event time: 18:00 – 19:00 (GMT)
Location: Hybrid – please select appropriate ticket type when registering (In person limited).
For those registering to watch online a link to view will be sent approx a week before the event.
For those attending in person, tea and coffee will be served from 17:30.
Professor Joanna Wardlaw, CBE, MD, FRSE, FMedSci, is Professor of Applied Neuroimaging at the University of Edinburgh, Foundation Chair in the UK Dementia Research Institute, and Consultant Neuroradiologist for NHS Lothian. Her work focuses on understanding the brain and its blood supply, and on treatments to improve blood flow to the brain, including thrombolytic drugs that are now in routine use to treat stroke, and more recently on treatments for small vessel disease and vascular dementia.
Summary of talk:
This short lecture will highlight important milestones in the development of modern neuroimaging and discuss key insights that are driving advances in common brain diseases. These include primary diseases of the blood vessels, such as stroke, and diseases of the neurons and supporting glia, such as dementia and multiple sclerosis.
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