Bringing together clinicians and researchers in the UK working on frontotemporal dementia and associated disorders.
FTDUK is co-ordinated by Dr Jonathan Rohrer (University College London), Professor James Rowe (University of Cambridge) and Prof Stuart Pickering-Brown (University of Manchester).
We run an Early Career Researcher prize for FTD researchers – this is open to any researcher who is a research assistant, PhD student or postdoctoral researcher within 5 years of completion of their PhD.
2020 will be the first year we have not run a meeting in 10 years but we are aiming to come back in Autumn 2021 with our 10th meeting.
2021 – 10th Annual Meeting – UCL – Date TBC
| 9.30am | Registration | |
| 10.00am | Welcome to the meeting and introduction | Jonathan Rohrer, James Rowe & Stuart Pickering-Brown |
| 10.10am | The FTD Prevention Initiative | Lucy Russell (UCL) |
| 10.30am | Transdiagnostic approaches in FTD | Matt Lambon-Ralph (University of Cambridge) |
| 10.50am | Synaptic PET imaging in FTD | Mica Clarke (UCL) and Maura Malpetti (University of Cambridge) |
| 11.10am | Coffee break | |
| 11.40am | Proteomics of TDP-43 proteinopathies | Christina Toomey (UCL) |
| 12.00pm | Towards gene therapy in progranulin | Chris Shaw (King's College London) |
| 12.20pm | TBC | TBC |
| 12.40pm | Lunch | |
| 1.40pm | TBC | TBC |
| 2.00pm | New therapies for GRN-associated FTD | Gerhard Koenig (Arkuda) |
| 2.20pm | Coffee break | |
| 2.50pm | Providing support to people with FTD and their families in the UK | Panel discussion with short talks |
| 3.20pm | Alzheimer's Society ECR prizes - introduction and award | |
| 3.30pm | Basic Science Prize for Early Career UK FTD Researcher sponsored by the Alzheimer's Society | |
| 3.40pm | Clinical Science Prize for Early Career UK FTD Researcher sponsored by the Alzheimer's Society | |
| 3.50pm | Summary | |
| 4.00pm | Finish |