Monday 13 May 2019, NeuroCampus Aarhus hosted Neuroscience Day 2019. The event was open to all students, researchers, clinicians, therapists, caregivers, foundations and organizations interested in neuroscience.

This year’s focus of the Neuroscience day was “Protein aggregation Brain diseases” under the headline: Brain Jam. 

The talks of the day covered  A-synucleinopathies, A-beta and Tau diseases, and other protein aggregation-disorders and included all aspects from: molecular bases of neurodegeneration, to disease modeling, patients studies and novel therapeutic approaches.

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Invited keynote speakers:

• 2018 Brain Prize Winner Prof. Michel Goedert. More information here.
• Prof Jørgen E. Nielsen, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen. More information here.
• Prof. Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neurosci. Center, Lund University, Sweden. More information here.    

Invited speakers:

• Prof Poul Henning Jensen, DANDRITE, AU
• Assoc. Prof Marina Romero-Ramos, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU
• Prof Daniel Otzen, INANO, AU
• Assoc. Prof Olav Andersen, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU 
• Prof David Brooks, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, AU

This year we also had the honor of having Keld Overgaard, cand.oecon and former Municipal Executive in Djursland, who talked about his life with Parkinson's Disease.

Foundations, associations, and organizations in attendance:

• The Brain Prize
• Novo Nordisk Fonden
• The Danish Parkinson Association 
• Dansk Selskab for Neurorehabilitering
• Dansk Selskab for Neurovidenskab