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 - 11:45
11:45 - 13:15
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
13:15 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Chair: Prof Tom Warner Co-Chair: Dr Anna-Leigh Brown
Dr Robert McGeachan: Mechanisms Driving Disease Progression in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Prof Becky Carlyle: Integrative 'omics approaches to dementia research
Prof James Carpenter: Innovative Design of Neuroscience Trials
17:50 - 18:00
Prof Masud Husain: Closing remarks
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
