Dementia Researcher Blogs19 Touko 2023

Ajantha Abey - Conference Insights: Top 10 Takeaways in Dementia Research

Ajantha Abey narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Ajantha shares his top 10 takeaways from recent conferences. His key findings include that breakthroughs are finally happening in therapeutic treatments, some of the most exciting advances are happening in fluid biomarkers, digital biomarkers are on the rise, spatial transcriptomics is the hottest new technique on the block, microglia are everyone's new favourite cell type, and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration - and diversity is finally making the agenda!

Find the original text, and narration here on our website.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-conference-insights-top-10-takeaways-in-dementia-research/

Ajantha Abey is a PhD student in the Kavli Institute at University of Oxford. He is interested in the cellular mechanisms of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other diseases of the ageing brain. Previously, having previoulsy explored neuropathology in dogs with dementia and potential stem cell replacement therapies. He now uses induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurons to try and model selective neuronal vulnerability: the phenomenon where some cells die but others remain resilient to neurodegenerative diseases.

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