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
Prof Dimitri Kullmann: Ion channels and receptors as gene therapy tools for epilepsy
09:50 - 11:20
Chair: Dr Laurent Sheybani Co-Chair: Dr Georgios Solomou
Prof William Gray: Delivering Advanced Therapies to the human brain; Trials, Tribulations and Technologies
Dr Jonathan Cooper-Knock: Antisense oligonucleotides to treat ALS
Prof Omer Bayraktar: Mapping the rules of human brain diseases with single cell and spatial omics
11:20 - 11:50
11:50 - 13:20
Chair: Prof Alasdair Coles Co-Chair: Dr Pao-Sheng Chang
Prof Virginia Newcombe: Reframing traumatic brain injury: using biomarkers to guide future care
Prof Adrian Liston: Using brain-resident regulatory T cells to treat neuroinflammation
Prof Denise Fitzgerald: Regenerative T cell (Treg) function in myelin regeneration
13:20 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:55
Chair: Dr Manuela Marescotti Co-Chair: Dr Emma Tallantyre
Brain Communication ECR Award 2025 - Dr Zanna Voysey: Can we use sleep to mitigate dementia? Insights from a 12-year study in Huntington's Disease gene carriers
Meg Watt - Analysis of Glial Morphology and APOE Sequence Diversity in Mammalian Models of Age-Related Neurodegeneration
Harry Deijnen - Blood-based metabolic biomarkers of post-stroke cognitive decline
Victor Álvaro - Infiltrating blood-derived macrophages in the injured cortex unlock glial lineage plasticity and enhance neuronal reprogramming
Pao-Sheng Chang - Investigating the pathological interactions between pain-associated macrophages and sensory neurons in human
Roberto Magliozzi - Immune-pathological profile of proliferative B cells infected by Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sclerosis leptomeninges
Niall Bourke - Assessing Structural MRI Pipelines for Accurate Ultra-Low-Field Infant Brain Measurements
15:55 - 16:25
16:25 - 17:55
Chair: Prof Tom Warner Co-Chair: Dr Anna-Leigh Brown
Dr Robert McGeachan: Mechanisms Driving Disease Progression in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Prof Becky Carlyle: Integrative 'omics approaches to dementia research
Prof James Carpenter: Accelerating evaluation of interventions in neuroscience: what can multi-arm multi-stage trials do for you?
17:55 - 18:00
Prof Masud Husain: Closing remarks
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
