CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2009
Vienna, Austria
11 – 16 July 2009
Vienna: New Genes, Anyone? ICAD Saves Best for Last
This meeting, within the space of three hours, featured arguably the biggest news in AD genetics research in the past decade...
Vienna: In Genetics, Bigger Is Better—Data Sharing Nets Three New Hits
On the last morning of the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD), investigators from different research groups marked a milestone in AD genetics...
Vienna: Can a D-Peptide Turn Tiger Into Pussycat?
A variety of approaches are beginning to home in on Aβ oligomers as drug targets, and some of them were showcased at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease...
Vienna: New Shoot Among Ashes of Drug Trials
At the ICAD, news on the drug trials landscape painted a mostly bleak picture, but of course, that’s not the whole story...
Vienna: New Tack to See Amyloid Oligomers in Body Fluids
The ICAD featured that the interest in small Aβ aggregates has branched out far beyond the initial debates about whether they even exist and which forms are important...
Vienna (and Burkina Faso): What's New With Methylene Blue?
This story presents an update from this year's ICAD conference, together with an extended Q&A with the developer of RemberTM, Claude Wischik...