Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture 2016

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 18 August 2016

Time:

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Room:

Level 7 Auditorium

UQ Location:

Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)

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Full Description:: Speaker: Peter Goodenough

Title: What causes MND?

About the speaker:
Ammar Al-Chalabi is Professor of Neurology and Complex Disease Genetics at King’s College London, and a consultant neurologist at King’s College Hospital, London, UK. He is Director of the King’s MND Care and Research Centre, an MND Association endorsed centre of excellence, combining a world class multi-professional specialist MND clinic and a research team of international standing. He was awarded the prestigious Sheila Essey Award in ALS from the American Academy of Neurology this year. His research focusses on understanding the causes of MND and how they relate to the different ways that MND affects people. His research team have identified or helped identify most of the known gene variations involved in MND, recently completing the largest ever genetic study of the condition. He now co-leads the international Project MinE consortium, aiming to completely sequence the entire genomes of 15,000 people with MND. He also leads a European consortium, STRENGTH, using genetics, population registers and environmental questionnaires to identify subtypes of MND.