6th Brain Conference, 20 March 2026
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:10
Prof Mary Reilly: Introduction Guarantors of Brain Prize
09:10 - 09:50
(Winner to be announced in mid December)
09:50 - 11:20
Chair: Dr Laurent Sheybani
Prof William Gray: Delivering genes and cells to the brain
Dr Jonathan Cooper-Knock: Antisense oligonucleotides to treat ALS
Prof Omer Bayraktar: Single-cell gene analysis in neurology and neuroscience
11:20 - 11:45
11:45 - 13:15
Chair: Prof Alasdair Coles Co-Chair: Dr Pao-Sheng Chang
Prof Denise Fitzgerald: Regeneration within the CNS
Prof Adrian Liston: Neuro-immune modulation after Traumatic Brain Injury
13:15 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Chair: Prof Tom Warner Co-Chair: Dr Anna-Leigh Brown
Prof Becky Carlyle: Biological profiling in dementia
17:50 - 18:00
Prof Masud Husain: Closing remarks
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
