Conference Reports

PD Online brings you updates and summaries from conferences around the globe. Here you'll find agendas and meeting summaries, poster and speaker abstracts, Hot Topics@ and more. Attendees can continue Q&A right here after the conference ends bringing the discussions online and open to participation all our members. You can find more conferences and events listed on our Calendar.

2010 Conferences

Date

Location
Alpha-synuclein Summit 13-14 January
 New York, NY
4th Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration  1-2 February
  Houston, TX
1st International Conference on Knowledge Gaps in Parkinson's disease and Other Movement Disorders  5-7 February
  Taormina, Italy
MJFF 2010 Scientific Advisory Board Meeting 24-25 February Charlotte, NC
3rd International Congress on Gait & Mental Function  26-28 February
 Washington, DC
American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting 10-17 April Toronto, Canada
Symposium on Future Treatment Avenues in Parkinson’s disease (and Related Disorders) 4-6 May
 Bordeaux, France
24th Annual PSG Symposium on Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of PD and Other Movement Disorders 15 May
 Irving, Texas
The Movement Disorder Society
14th International Congress		  13-17 June
  Buenos Aires, Argentina
1st Symposium on Systems Approaches to Parkinson's Disease (SAPD)  18-19 August
  Maynooth, Ireland
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2010 13-17 November San Diego, CA

7th International Congress on Mental Dysfunction & Other Non-Motor Features in Parkinson’s Disease

  9-12 December
  Barcelona, Spain

2009 Conferences

Date

Location
The Movement Disorder Society
13th International Congress		 6-11 July 2009 Paris, France

11th Annual Center Directors' Meeting,
Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research

 21-22 Sept 2009 Charlottesville, VA
Third Annual PD Therapeutics Conference
 30 Sept 2009 New York, NY
2nd International Stem Cell Research Symposium: Frontiers of Neural Stem Cells  1-2 October 2009
  San Francisco, CA
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009
 17-21 Oct 2009 Chicago, IL
Partnering for Cures: A FasterCures Meeting 1-3 December, 2009
New York, NY
LRRK2 Summit 9 December, 2009 New York, NY
XVIII WFN World Congress on Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders  13-16 December 2009
  Miami, FL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responses:
Gamma-knife thalamotomy can eliminate tremor?
Holli Kawadler, MJFF
9 Nov 2009 01:51 PM EST
Data was presented last week regarding follow-up studies of 183 patients with Parkinson's disease or essential tremor who underwent stereotactic radiosurgery thalamotomy at the 51st Annual Meeting of ... 
Contributions:
The MJFF LRRK2 Summit: Meeting Report and Key Take-Aways
LRRK2 Summit
Brian K. Fiske, MJFF
24 Dec 2009
On 9 December, MJFF held a LRRK2 Summit in New York City. The meeting brought together close to 30 external academic and industry scientists with MJFF staff to focus on one common goal: to accelerate ... 
Responses: 2
News:
Attending the WFN World Congress on Parkinson's in Miami?
We need your help! We want to hear about the science presented in Miami - what are the hottest topics this year? ... 
01 Dec 2009
SfN Coverage Continues - Tell us about your favorite finds
PD Online members have already posted more than 50 pieces on their most notable finds at SfN.  The Annual Meeting is over, but the coverage and reporting contest continues: members log in and ... 
27 Oct 2009
Not attending? Not a problem! PD Online brings you the PD Therapeutics Conference
PD Online Research is now publishing coverage of the Third Annual PD Therapeutics Conference, hosted by The Michael J. Fox Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences. We've pulled out all the ... 
01 Oct 2009
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