| 09.30 | Coffee and registration |
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| 10.00 | Session 1 Chair: Dr Irene François |
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| 10.05 | Professor John Hardy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK |
| | Genetic analysis of neurodegenerative diseases |
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| 10.40 | Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux, Institut Pasteur, France |
| | Allosteric receptors from electic organ to cognition: challenges for the discovery of new medicines for neurological disorders |
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| 11.15 | Dr Andrew Thomas, F Hoffman-La Roche AG, Switzerland |
| | Treatment of cognitive dysfunction by selectively modulating the GABAA a5 receptor subtype |
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| 11.50 | Lunch and Poster Session |
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| 13.30 | Session 2 Chair: Dr Colin Bedford |
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| 13.35 | Professor Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| | Targeting protein-protein interactions in the brain |
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| 14.10 | Professor Simon Heales, UCL Institute of Child Health & Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK |
| | Potential Metabolic Causes of Parkinson’s Disease |
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| 14.45 | Professor David Collier, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK |
| | Genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability and epilepsy |
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| 15.20 | Tea |
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| 16.05 | Session 3 Chair: Dr Klaus Rumpel |
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| 16.10 | Professor Dominic Walsh, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Ireland |
| | Targeting synaptotoxic Abeta |
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| 16.45 | Dr Dic Williams, Pfizer Pharma Therapeutics, Sandwich, UK |
| | The future of pain therapeutics; emerging mechanisms and molecules |
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| 17.20 | Closing remarks |