Alzheimer's clinical studies what can you do ?

One of the most important worldwide challenges are the next generation Alzheimer's disease treatments. Alzheimer's disease treatments worldwide leaders will meet at the CTAD 2019 Congress in order to discuss new results, candidate therapeutics, and methodological issues. Alzheimer's disease symptoms and dementia treatment will be dealt with at the CTAD 2019 Congress. Clinical trial teams from worldwide centers will report on their efforts to identify new biomarkers of disease as well as more sensitive clinical assessment tools to identify those at risk for AD, to predict progression, and assess the effectiveness of new treatments. The future of clinical trials may lie in revisiting all drugs known to be safe and evaluate their relevance in AD treatment. The importance of non-pharmaceutical trials and that anti-amyloid treatment for AD was shown at the 2018 CTAD Congress. Furthermore we also learned more of another pathway with Tau Biomarkers, and their implications for AD along with combination therapeutics and phase 3 clinical trials results. Again in 2019 Clinical teams will present their population studies on subjects in the early stage of the disease symptoms or even at the asymptomatic stage. New examples of trials will be highlighted in the 2019 CTAD Congress. Overall, the aim of the conference is to overcome the hurdles and speed the development of effective treatments. Reviews, original research articles and short reports on Alzheimer prevention will be published in the JPAD . They will include articles on the following topics : neurosciences, biomarkers, imaging, epidemiology, public health, physical cognitive exercise, nutrition, risk and protective factors, drug development, trials design, and health economic outcomes.

Scientific committee

  • Susan ABUSHAKRA (Chief Medical officer)
  • Paul AISEN (Professor)
  • Kaj BLENNOW (Professor)
  • Merce BOADA (Chief Medical)
  • Maria CARRILLO (Chief Science Officer at Alzheimer's Association)
  • Mony John DE LEON (New York)
  • Steven DEKOSKY (Professor of Neurology)
  • Rachelle DOODY (Global Head of Neurodegeneration)
  • Bruno DUBOIS (Paris)
  • Howard FELDMAN (Vancouver)
  • Nick FOX (London)
  • Giovanni B. FRISONI (Brescia, Geneva)
  • Lutz FROELICH (Mannheim)
  • Serge GAUTHIER (Montreal)
  • Ezio GIACOBINI (Professor at University of Geneva)
  • Michael GRUNDMANN (San Diego)
  • Harald HAMPEL (Neurology Business Group)
  • Takeshi IWATSUBO (Research Associate)
  • Ara KHACHATURIAN (Executive Editor, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • Zaven KHACHATURIAN (Alzheimer’s Disease by 2020)
  • Virginia LEE (Philadelphia)

  • Constantine G. LYKETSOS (Baltimore)
  • Jose Luis MOLINUEVO (Barcelona)
  • Jean-Marc ORGOGOZO (Research in clinical Neuroscience)
  • Ronald PETERSEN (Minnesota)
  • Craig W. RITCHIE (Edinburgh)
  • Augustin RUIZ (Senior Clinical Research)
  • Robert RISSMAN (San Diego)
  • Marwan Sabbagh (Las Vegas)
  • Stephen SALLOWAY (Providence)
  • Rachel SCHINDLER (Neurologist, New York)
  • Philip SCHELTENS (Amsterdam)
  • Lon SCHNEIDER (Los Angeles)
  • Eric SIEMERS (Philadelphia)
  • Peter SNYDER (Rhode Island)
  • Reisa SPERLING (Boston)
  • Yaakov STERN (New York)
  • Jacques TOUCHON (Montpellier)
  • John TROJANOWSKI (Philadelphia)
  • Bruno VELLAS (Toulouse)
  • Michael W. WEINER (San Francisco)
  • Bengt WINBLAD (Stockholm)

CTAD Organizing Commitee

Jacques Touchon
Jacques Touchon, MD, PhD University Hospital of Montpellier, France.
Paul Aisen
Paul Aisen, MD Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) University of Southern California (USC) at San Diego
Bruno Vellas
Bruno Vellas, MD, PhD University Hospital of Toulouse, France.
Michael Weiner
Mike Weiner, MD University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA