2009 Brodie-Hall Memorial Address
Friday, 25 September 2009
The CSIRO Alumni will be hosting the 2009 Brodie-Hall Memorial Address on Wednesday 28 October 2009 at The University Club of WA, starting 6.00pm.
Professor Richard Head, Director, CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship, will present
MIND MATTERS: the science behind the early detection and monitoring of Alzheimer’s disease.
Everyone is welcome to attend but as seating is limited it will be necessary to RSVP to CSIRO Enquiries tel. 1300 363 400 by 19 October 2009.
About the Brodie-Hall Address
The Brodie-Hall Memorial Address is CSIRO’s annual lecture, instituted by the former CSIRO Western Australian State Committee in 1985, to recognise the contributions made to CSIRO and Western Australia by Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall. The 2009 address will be the 25th lecture in the series.
About the Speaker
Professor Richard Head, Director, CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship
Professor Head has had 40 years research experience nationally and internationally in investigating the aetiology of chronic diseases that affect societies. Professor Head trained as a pharmacologist at the University of Adelaide, South Australia and completed postdoctoral training at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, USA. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the West Virginia University, USA, Affiliate Professor of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, University of Adelaide and Chief of the CSIRO Division of Health Sciences and Nutrition before his appointment as the CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship Director in 2002. He has published extensively in the cardiovascular and nutrition areas.
As Director, Professor Head is responsible for the management and delivery of science focused on early detection and intervention in chronic diseases of significance to Australia. He leads a team of 162 research scientists and technical staff with skills in genomics and proteomics, biotechnology, bioinformatics and statistical data analysis, structural biology, information technology, psychology and food and nutritional sciences. Specifically the Director oversees development of approaches to early detection and intervention in colorectal cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and obesity.
Abstract of Presentation
In Australia 1000 people are being diagnosed with dementia each week and one of the major health challenges the nation faces is that the number of dementia sufferers will exceed one million by 2050. About 80 per cent of this neurological disease is caused by Alzheimer’s disease.
Professor Head’s address will focus on how the CSIRO Preventative Health National Research Flagship, in collaboration with industry and the research community, is seeking approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s, to reduce the burden of the disease on the community for the future.
He will discuss how comparing brain images of healthy people and patient suffering from Alzheimer’s is helping us to understand the evolution of the disease. Using imaging, computer methods are being investigated for the early detection of Alzheimer’s and to monitor the disease progression. In addition, these new technologies are expected to have the potential to help assess new Alzheimer’s disease drug treatments in the future.
He will also explain how research using cellular processes is providing potential insights into the causes of Alzheimer’s and how this information may be used to design natural and synthetic drugs to intervene in the disease.
Details of Event:
Address: MIND MATTERS: the science behind the early detection and monitoring of Alzheimer’s disease
Speaker: Professor Richard Head, Director, CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2009
Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm start. Refreshments to follow
Place: The University Club of WA, University Western Australia, Hackett Drive, Entrance #1, Carpark #3, Crawley WA
RSVP: Monday 19 October 2009. Tel: 1300 363 400, Email: enquiries@csiro.au
Seating limited, RSVP essential
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