10^th World Congress on Alzheimers Disease & Dementia May 30-31, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Nela Pivac is senior scientist, re-elected, at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, and Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary PhD study in Osijek University. She is Associated Editor of Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, head of the Laboratory for Molecular Neuropsychiatry, main editor of the RBI Annual report, and leader of numerous national and inernational projects. She has won 4 State Awards for scientific achievements and published 139 scientific papers and 38 chapters in the books, cited 2948 times, H-index=32; and serves as reviewer for domestic and international projects and numerous reputed journals.

Alzheimers disease and Dementia

A/Prof Reshma Merchant graduated from University of Edinburgh and currently a fellow of Royal College of Physician (Edin). She is currently the head of Division of Geriatric Medicine at the National University Hospital, Singapore. Her primary interest is in cognitive frailty.

Care Practice and Awareness

Claude M Wischik holds the Chair in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and is Executive Chairman of TauRx Pharmaceuticals. He studied medicine in Australia, completed his PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and also higher psychiatric training in Cambridge. He was the first to identify Tau protein as the main constituent of the Alzheimer tangle and developed the first Tau Aggregation Inhibitors. He has published 121 papers and holds 11 patent groups based on his work with over 40 individual patents.

Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia

Professor, College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia

Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, neuroprotection mechanisms against Alzheimer’s disease

Bénédicte Défontaines holds an M.D. degree, advanced degrees in Biochemistry, Neurology and Neurosciences. In 2004 she create the Aloïs network, a new community-based pathway for the diagnosis and care of patients with cognitive disorders fully complementary to the existing system but more flexible and less traumatizing for patients and less costly for the State. Thanks to the creation of a consultable protocol database, the number of patients included in research protocols has risen each year. In 2014 she launched the first remote memory consultation. She plans to expand this approach to French people living abroad. She is an Ashoka Fellow.

Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease

Dr. Bruno Vincent, has completed his PhD from the University of Nice, France, in 1996. He then joined the Rockefeller University in New York as a post-doctoral fellow. Back to France in 1999 at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology in Sophia-Antipolis, he took the position of permanent researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2001 and was promoted Research Director in 2011. In 2010, Dr. Vincent moved to Mahidol University in Bangkok where his research team is working on the identification of new AD-regulating factors. Dr. Vincent has published 60 articles in reputed international journals

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Herman Moreno: Associate Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology/Physiology at SUNY Downstate, New York USA: The laboratory of Moreno focuses mainly in functional analysis of mice modeling Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The team uses, state of the art electrophysiological techniques, coupled with calcium imaging and functional MRI

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Dr. Ian James Martins is an Editor/Reveiwer for Open Acess Pub/MDPI journals. Appointed as the Chief Editor for International Journal of Diabetes Research (2014-2018), Research and Reviews: Neuroscience (2016-2018) and Journal of Diabetes and Clinical Studies (2017-2018). BIT Member (BIT Congress. Inc). Scientist for Science Advisory Board (USA) and Academic with Academia.edu. H-index of 43, (ResearchGate STATs (23), Mendeley STATS (20). Scientific research citations accumulated to >3300. Lifetime Membership by International Agency for Standards and Ratings as Fellow. Winner (World Academic Championship -2017) in Diabetes and Medical Science (Nutrition). Conferred with the RICHARD KUHN RESEARCH AWARD-2015 ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia