The 3rd Swedish Meeting for Alzheimer Research, April 10, 2025

Welcome to the 3rd Swedish Meeting for Alzheimer Research, April 10, 2025. Organized by the Center for Alzheimer Research, Karolinska Institutet.

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Aula Medica
Aula Medica. Photo: Janos Kovacs.

Conference information

The Center for Alzheimer Research (CAR) at Karolinska Institutet organizes a day focused on research on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The conference brings together researchers from all of Sweden as well as clinicians and industry partners related to the topic of dementia. 

Date: April 10, 2025

Time: 9 am - 5 pm

Place: Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet, Campus Solna, Stockholm

Karolinska Institutet, Campus Solna.

Registration

Registration is open from December 10, 2024 - March 31, 2025.

Program

8.00-9.15
Registration
9.30–9.45
Welcome words

9.15  KI president Annika Östman Wernerson

9.20  H.M. Drottning Silvia

Director of Center for Alzheimer Research (CAR) Daniel Ferreira 

 

9.45–10.15
Session I – Epidemiology and risk factors of Alzheimer's Disease

Chairs: TBD (GU) and Chengxuan Qiu (KI)

Speakers:
Giulia Grande (KI-ARC), topic: population-based studies on AD plasma biomarkers
TBD: topic: Inherited risk factors/ lifestyle and psychosocial risk factors 
Sara Hägg (KI), topic: age-related risk factors

10.15–10.45
Session II – Amyloid proteinopathy

Chairs: Anna Månberg (KTH) and Hugo Lövheim (UmU)

Speakers:
Axel Abelein (KI), topic: amyloid structure
Sofie Nyström (LiU), topic: proteins misfolding and aggregation
Jörg Hanrieder (GU), topic: amyloid pathogenesis

PRESENTATION FROM GOLD SPONSOR

10.45–11.30
Silvia Prize for Young Researcher within Alzheimer
11.30–12.30
POSTERS and LUNCH
12.15–12.30
Presentation from silver sponsors

Chair: Daniel Ferreira

12.30–13.15
Session III – Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and artificial intelligence

Chairs: TBD (GU) and TBD (UmU)

Speakers:
TBD (GU), topic: Fluid biomarkers
Ruben Smith (LU), topic: PET imaging
Rodrigo Moreno (KTH), topic: MRI and artificial intelligence
Malin Wennström (LU), topic: Retina and Alzheimer's disease

 

13.15–14.00
POSTERS and COFFEE BREAK
14.00–14.45
Speed presentations from abstract submission

Chair: Per Nilsson (KI)

14.45–15.30
Session IV – Astrocytes, synapses, and APOE

Chairs: Maria Lindskog (UU) and Tomas Deierborg (LU)

Speakers:
Anna Erlandsson (UU), topic: astrocytes
Gunnar Gouras (LU), topic: synapses, APOE
Henrietta Nielsen (SU), topic: APOE and systemic processes

PRESENTATION FROM GOLD SPONSOR 

15.30–16.15
POSTERS and COFFEE BREAK
16.15–16.55
Session V – Treatment of Alzheimer´s disease

Chairs: Helena Karlström (KI) and Dorota Religa (KI)

Speakers:
Linus Jönsson (KI-NG), topic: economics of AD disease modifying treatments
Dorota Religa (KI-CG), topic: SveDem Drug module – follow-up of new drugs
Greta Hultqvist (UU), topic: treating amyloid

PRESENTATION FROM GOLD SPONSOR

16.55–17.00
Closing remarks

CAR Steering group: Chengxuan Qiu, Dorota Religa, Per Nilsson, Daniel Ferreira

 

Contact

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Daniel Ferreira Padilla

Principal Researcher

The Swedish Brain Foundation's Alzheimer Symposium, April 9, 2025

Please note that the 3rd Swedish Meeting for Alzheimer Research is held the day after the Swedish Brain Foundation's Symposium, also at Karolinska Institutet, Aula Medica.