CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Human Amyloid Imaging 2025
San Juan, Puerto Rico
15 – 17 January 2025
After 14 years in Miami, HAI is on the move again. This January conference started in chilly Boston and moved around the north for some time, meeting in Chicago, Seattle, and Toronto, before settling in a warmer clime in 2011. For 2025, HAI pulled up stakes again and landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, 419 attendees from 16 countries shared data about how to line up blood biomarkers with PET data, how locus coeruleus connectivity might influence tangle spread, and what the field is learning from its growing focus on studying non-white populations.
At Human Amyloid Imaging Conference, Plasma Tau Was the Star
In Puerto Rico, scientists agreed that jointly measuring multiple plasma tau markers could be a powerful readout of tau pathology in a person’s brain.
When Tau Wanders Off, Subcortical Axon Firing Goes Mum
At HAI, scientists report that tangle accumulation in tracts from the locus coeruleus keeps neural systems from communicating with one another when neurons die.