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Library Lecture: Banner Alzheimer’s Institute & Sun Health Research Institute
February 28 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Science of Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
Can scientists find a way to stop Alzheimer’s disease before it ever affects your memory and thinking? Research efforts to prevent the disease are now focused on individuals who may be at risk for Alzheimer’s but do not show any symptoms. This fascinating presentation will provide an overview of how Alzheimer’s disease is defined before symptoms appear and how it is being used to develop preventative therapies. Presented by Mike Malek-Ahmadi, PhD, GStat Bioinformatics Scientist.
This is a free event; tickets are required and can be picked up in the library.
Date: Wed. February 28th
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Palm Ridge Summit Hall A
Mike Malek-Ahmadi is a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He has worked in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research since 2003 and is an author on over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, and normal aging. Dr. Malek-Ahmadi’s current work at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute focuses on identifying and characterizing pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease using clinical, cognitive, neuroimaging, and neuropathological data.
