Principal Investigators


Shelley Forrest

Institution


The University of Sydney

Contact information of lead PI


Country


Australia

Title of project or programme


Development of staging criteria to distinguish preclinical tauopathies from primary age-related tauopathy (PART)

Source of funding information


Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation

Total sum awarded (Euro)


€ 8,412

Start date of award


01/01/2015

Total duration of award in years


1

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Research Abstract


The Rosemary Foundation Travel Fellowship will enable Dr Forrest to present her research at the 10th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias in Munich, 2016. She will also spend time in the laboratory of prominent neuropathologist, Associate Professor Kovacs at the Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna. Associate Professor Kovacs is internationally recognised for his contributions in the neuropathology of normal aging, diseases characterised by the deposition of a protein called tau such as frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. He is a member of an international consortium that recently developed harmonised classification criteria for two novel tau-depositing pathologies. Both of these newly classified tau pathologies have implications for defining ‘normal’ age-related changes in the brain, and tau-related mechanisms in frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer’s disease. Visiting the Kovacs laboratory will provide Dr Forrest with the opportunity to gain first hand experience in the identification and characterisation of these novel pathologies, and broaden her knowledge of better-established tau pathologies.

Further information available at:


https://www.dementiaresearchfoundation.org.au/researchers/shelley-forrest

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