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Alzheimer's Disease Drug Development and the Changing Therapeutic Landscape

February 15, 2024 4:00-5:30 PST

On February 15, 2024, The Clinical Trials Forum presents Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, a world-renowned Alzheimer’s researcher and leader of clinical trials. With more than 200 thousand citations to his work, he ranks in the top 0.01% of the most cited scientists in the world and in the top 5 of Alzheimer's disease researchers.  His numerous awards include the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry’s Distinguished Scientist Award (2010) and the national Alzheimer’s Association’s Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award(2018).  He has been featured in Gentleman’s Quarterly as a “Rock Star of Science.”  Dr. Cummings’ interests embrace clinical trials, developing new therapies for brain diseases, and the interface of neuroscience and society. 


Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD.

Director, Chambers-Grundy Center for

Transformative Neuroscience,

Co-Director, Pam Quirk Brain Health and

Biomarker Laboratory.

Co-Director, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related

Disorders Innovation Incubator







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NIH Toolbox Assessments Conference

April 8, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
April 9, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

On April 8 and 9, 2024, the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) will host an in-person conference, with live videocast for remote viewing of select sessions, to highlight and share advancements and features of four affiliated measurement systems/measures: the NIH Toolbox®, the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox (NIH Baby Toolbox), Mobile Toolbox, and MyCog. 

The purpose of this conference is to bring together the NIH community, extramural investigators, clinicians, and other stakeholders to learn about neurological and behavioral measures and measurement systems supported through NIH funding including recent updates, improvements, and adaptations. 

The conference will include:

  • Perspectives from NIH leadership, current users, and early adopters on the importance of well-validated, psychometrically sound measures for use across a wide variety of research studies, clinical trials, and clinical and educational settings. 

  • Presentation of updates, improvements, and adaptations to NIH Toolbox® using emerging technologies to expand the reach of the measurement system to a wider range of age groups, for use in tracking change, and to monitor treatment response for neurodegenerative disease.

  • Launch of several new measurement systems and measures that build off the NIH Toolbox® framework and which offer rigorous assessment of a wide range of neurological and behavioral functions in infants and toddlers; of cognition in adults via self-administration; and of detection of cognitive impairment in the primary care provider setting. 

  • Demonstrations of all four measurement systems and measures, including new and existing features and instruction on how to access them.

  • Discussion of lessons learned, best practices, and a future vision to keep these tools dynamic and relevant for end-users from multiple disciplines.

Location

The NIH Toolbox® Assessments Conference will be held in person with an option for remote viewing of select sessions.


In-person

National Institutes of Health

Natcher Conference Center

45 Center Drive

Building 45

Bethesda, MD 20894



Cognitive Aging Summit IV

March 20-21

The Cognitive Aging Summit IV will be held March 20-21, 2024 in Bethesda, MD, convened by the National Institute on Aging and made possible by the McKnight Brain Research Foundation through a generous grant to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. This fourth Summit will be devoted to scientific presentations and discussion of age-related brain and cognitive change, with a particular focus on individual differences and the development of personalized approaches to the remediation of decline and the maintenance of health.


Location

Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, MD. 



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