Disease Modelling and Drug Discovery in Neurological Disorders

About the Speaker
Zameel Cader Is Scientific Director of IMI StemBANCC and is the Director of the Oxford Headache Centre. He is also Clinical Director for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology for the Strategic Clinical Network. He is Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience and the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. His research programme is focused on understanding the disease process in neurodysfunctional disorders such as migraine and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease using cell biology, model organism and human imaging studies. His group is now working with MRC Technology to bring more effective treatments arising from these findings to clinic.
AbstractThis presentation will focus on stemBANCC and its progress in developing disease relevant models as well as how we hope to turn these into drug screening assays.