MRC Proximity to Discovery: Industry Engagement
Lewy body dementia Theme Workshop – week commencing 1st February 2016
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
AM
09.00 Arrival & Registration
08.30 – 09.00 Breakfast and coffee
08.30 – 09.00 Breakfast and coffee
09.30 Introduction to Proximity to Discovery (Prof Roy Taylor
& Prof David Burn)
09.00 - 09.30 An imaging perspective in LBD: past,
present and future (Prof Brooks)
10.00 – 10.30 Industry introductions
09.30 – 10.00 Gait as a biomarker in Lewy body
dementias (Prof Rochester)
09.00 – 10.30 Clinical Trial infrastructures
(presentations from R&D, Clinical Ageing
Research Unit/NIHR Dementias and
Neurodegeneration Network, NIHR
Biomedical Research Unit) (Dr Barber,
R&D/CARU and Dr Jarvis)
10.30-11.00 Overview of Lewy body dementias (Prof
McKeith) and Ashley Bayston (the Lewy Body Society)
11.00 – 11.30 Networking and Coffee/tea break
11.30 – 12.15 Meeting a patient and carer with Lewy Body
Dementia (LBD)/PDD (Prof Burn/Prof McKeith)
10.00-10.30 Neurophysiology and LBD: Novel
Diagnostic and therapeutic options (Prof Taylor/ Dr
Baker)
10.30-11.00 Networking and Coffee/tea break
10.30 – 11.00 Networking and Coffee/tea
break
11.00 – 11.30 Designing clinical trials in
Prodromal LBD (Prof McKeith/Dr Thomas)
11.00 – 11.30 Biomarker targets in LBD (Dr Thomas)
12.15 – Welcome from Prof Chris Day (TBC)
12.15 – 12.30 Public-patient perspectives (Prof Lynne Corner)
PM
11.30 – 12.00 Crash course in Lewy body pathology
and opportunities for treatment (Prof Attems)
11.30 – 12.00 Discussion from morning
session
12.30 – 12.45 Wrap up discussion from morning meeting
12.00 – 12.30 From mice to man: Can Lewy body in
vivo and in vitro models help inform future
treatment targets? (Dr LeBeau/Dr Cunningham)
12.45 – 13.30 Networking and Lunch
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion from morning
presentations
12.00 – 12.30 Wrap-up (Prof Burn & Prof
Taylor)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch with poster viewing (and
meeting early career researchers/students)
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Current treatments for Lewy body dementias:
what can we learn from them? (Prof Burn & Dr Yarnall)
14.00 – 14.45 Discussion and interactive workshop
14.45 – 16.30 Tour of facilities (Clinical Ageing Research Unit,
Institute of Neuroscience, Magnetic Resonance suite, Animal
house)
14.00 – 17.00 1:1 meetings between Principal
Investigators and Industry members. Challenge fora
opportunities.
13.30 – 16.00 Joint planning workshops on
shaping Biomedical Research Unit with
interested industry collaborators.
16.00 Departures
19.00 Social Dinner
MRC Proximity to Discovery: Industry Engagement
Lewy body dementia Theme Workshop – week commencing 1st February 2016
17.00 Cocktails and canapés with Poster viewing