Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR) 2025

CONFERENCE 2025-09-01 00:00:00-2025-09-04 00:00:00 Christchurch, New Zealand 01 &#x2013 04 September 2025 View Conference Website 0

BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-EY-25-001)

GRANT Friday, December 13, 2024- 3:30pm National Institutes of Health Application budgets may not exceed $400,000 total direct costs over a maximum three-year funding period. No more than $200,000 in direct costs may be requested in any single year. June 17, 20

Coordination Center for the Alzheimers Disease Sequencing Project Consortium (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AG-25-015)

GRANT Friday, December 13, 2024- 3:30pm National Institute on Aging NIA intends to support 1 award. Budgets are limited to $1 million in direct costs per year. The maximum project period is 5 years. Letter of Intent due February 14, 2025. Application due March

Institutional Training Programs to Advance Translational Research on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) (T32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-25-247)

GRANT Friday, December 13, 2024- 3:15pm National Institute on Aging Multiple due dates; see announcement. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-247.html 26 Sep 2026

Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in System Brain Research (CLARA)

JOB 2024-12-13 Employer The International Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Center (INDRC) Contact To apply, please send an application with subject “CLARA Director,” including a detailed CV, a motivation letter, information on strategic R&D vision, electronic co

Bojana Omersel Weeks

International Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Centre
Czech Republic

Lester Mills

Dr. L. Mills Consultant
Switzerland

Edward B. Lee, David Dai on Astrocytes Mount Complex Responses to AD. They Change Over Time

COMMENT This was an ambitious study using single-nucleus RNA-Seq to characterize astrocyte heterogeneity across five brain regions in 32 donors who spanned the spectrum of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology. The authors’ analysis of normal brains revealed astrocy

Michael Belloy on Large Neuropathology GWAS Finds Four New Dementia Genes

COMMENT The authors present a wonderful study that investigated, for the first time at this scale, genome-wide associations studies (GWAS) with various curated neuropathological traits. The findings are very relevant, strengthening insights into how known Alzheim

Matthew Sexson

Eli Lilly
United States

Andrew Stern on Is Your Brain Aging Fast? Plasma Proteins Might Tell

COMMENT With great respect to the authors and others in the field, I urge the field to reject the nomenclature of "brain aging," or "biological aging," as distinct from "age." We are all, including the authors of this paper, trying h

PAPER Volkmann H, Höglinger GU, Grön G, Bârlescu LA, DESCRIBE-PSP study group, Müller HP, Kassubek J

MRI classification of progressive supranuclear palsy, Parkinson disease and controls using deep learning and machine learning algorithms for the identification of regions and tracts of interest as potential biomarkers.

Comput Biol Med. 2025 Feb;185:109518. Epub 2024 Dec 10 PubMed.

PAPER Dong M, Liu C, Luo H, Su D, Li G, Xu F, Song M, Zhang Y

Efficacy and tolerability of antidepressants monotherapy for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

J Psychiatr Res. 2025 Jan;181:417-424. Epub 2024 Dec 4 PubMed.

PAPER Huang C, Qiu L, Zhou W, Shao C, Wang X, Zhang Q, Chen W, Xiong M, Huang M, Tang M, Zou L, Xu X

A human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line (SMUSHi006-A) from an ALS patient carrying a mutation c.1126C > T in the FUS gene.

Stem Cell Res. 2025 Feb;82:103604. Epub 2024 Nov 9 PubMed.

PAPER Aparajita A, Jain U, Srivastava P

"Current and emerging drug therapies in Alzheimer's disease: A pathophysiological Perspective".

Neuroscience. 2025 Jan 26;565:499-518. Epub 2024 Dec 9 PubMed.