Donald L. Price Memorial Symposium

Description

The hybrid Donald L. Price Memorial Symposium features keynote speakers Don W. Cleveland, department chair of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego, and Stanley Prusiner, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and neurologist.

Other panel discussions on neuroscience topics include:

• Human and Comparative Neuropathology and Aging: Juan Troncoso, director of the Johns Hopkins Brain Resource Center; Lee Martin, director of the Johns Hopkins Graduate Training Program in Pathobiology; and Lary Walker, associate professor emeritus of neurology at Emory University
• Axonal Biology and Trophic Factors: Vassilis Koliatsos, Johns Hopkins professor of pathology; Paul Hoffman, neurosurgeon from the Catholic Health Initiatives Memorial Neuroscience Institute; Bill Mobley, a distinguished professor of neurology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine: and Moses Chao, a professor of neuroscience and physiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine
• Neurodegenerative Disease: Translational Models: Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, a Johns Hopkins professor of neurology; Sam Sisodia, a professor of neurobiology at The University of Chicago; Dave Borchelt, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Florida College of Medicine; and Phil Wong, a Johns Hopkins professor of pathology
• The Neuroscience Community Impact: Marilyn Albert, the director of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cognitive Neuroscience; Allan Levey, a professor of neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine; Dennis Choi, chair of the Department of Neurology at Stony Brook Medicine; Cheryl Kitt, a senior science advisor at the National Institutes of Health; Jeff Rothstein, a Johns Hopkins professor of neurology and neuroscience

Opening and closing remarks will be provided by Ralph Hruban, director of the Johns Hopkins Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center; Charles Eberhart, Johns Hopkins director of Neuropathology and Ophthalmic Pathology; and Justin McArthur, director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology.

This is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please register via Zoom in advance.

The neuroscience-based Donald L. Price Memorial Symposium honors the late Donald Price, founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Division of Neuropathology and the leader of the Neuropathology Laboratory and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center for many years.