CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Frontotemporal Dementia Treatment: 2011 Study Group Meeting
Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
25 – 26 March 2011
The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened in Las Vegas in 2009 as the newest site in the Cleveland Clinic network. Its mission: to advance new therapeutics and diagnostics by developing the world’s largest Alzheimer's disease clinical program to harnesses the power of a networked healthcare system. Director Jeffrey Cummings hopes to make the center a hotspot for therapeutic initiatives in other neurologic diseases as well. Toward that end, in spring 2011 the center hosted the first independent meeting of the Frontotemporal Dementia Treatment Study Group.
Las Vegas: Lou Ruvo Center Pioneers New Approach to Clinical Trials
Designed by world-class architect Frank Gehry, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened its doors in Las Vegas in 2009...
Las Vegas: Are Frontotemporal Dementia Models Fit for Pharma?
Some 65 representatives from academia, industry, advocacy groups, and government agencies tried to illuminate a path toward treatments for frontotemporal dementia...
Las Vegas: Can Collaboration Speed Drug Discovery for FTD?
Frontotemporal dementias (FTDs) have long stymied scientists’ attempts to model these disorders at the lab bench and to test drugs against them...