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A 3-day quality programme will include lectures, workshops, free paper presentation and exhibition covering various topics in stroke, will be provided to welcome delegates from both Hong Kong and overseas. Both international and local renowned experts will be invited as faculty. We are confident that participants will gain skills and knowledge through learning from the experts and exchanging ideas during the Conference.

Understanding the cellular and molecular events underpinning such synaptic dysfunction is a key goal if we are to halt or even reverse the inexorable deterioration currently observed in these conditions. Accordingly, much insight has already been gleaned on the genetics, protein misfolding, cell death pathways and mitochondrial involvement in chronic neurodegenerative diseases. From this insight has come greater knowledge of the fundamentals of synaptic function, but more so an appreciation of the potential, not only for drug-based therapies, but also biological treatments, for example via stem cells.

This conference will bring together world experts addressing the very mechanisms of neurodegeneration and the prospects for treatments that such knowledge promises.