The Real Reason for Brains

This short animated film, co-directed by neuroscientist Valentin Riedl, tells the story of Carlotta, who uses art to overcome a rare brain condition that prevents her from recognizing faces.

In this video recorded at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2019 in Liverpool, Dr Fiona Marshall, MSD, outlines some of the challenges for the development of treatments for dementia. She also explains how new biomarkers and imaging techniques can be used to identify and treat patients with ageing-related diseases.

Ola Engkvist, Associate Director at AstraZeneca outlines how neural networks are applied to drug discovery and the challenges associated with this approach.