We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders: Fundamentals and Treatments will be held in Awaji, Japan, located approximately 60 km west of Osaka city.
The conference will begin in the evening of Sunday June 21, 2026, and will conclude after the banquet on Wednesday evening on June 24, and depart on Thursday, June 25, 2026. The conference will include six oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Alzheimer's Disease. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Posters will be up for viewing and discussion throughout the conference. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.
Conference Venue & Accommodation
Cold Spring Harbor Asia conferences in JAPAN are arranged in Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center (https://www.yumebutai.co.jp/lang/en.html), which is part of a one-of-a-kind “environment creation” project equipped with professional conference facilities and blended into the magnificent landscape, designed by the famous architect Tadao Ando. Meeting participants are strongly recommended to stay at the conference hotel, Grand Nikko Awaji (https://awaji.grandnikko.com/en/) during the meeting with the rest of the participants if possible. The accommondation booking URL will be sent to you after completion of meeting registration.
Major Topics:
1. Neuroimmunology and neurodegeneration
2. Small vessel, fluid flow and brain barrier in neurodegeneration
3. Proteostasis and neurodegeneration
4. Lipid metabolism and lysosomes in neurodegeneration
5. Genetics and biology of disease risk genes
6. Updates of AD clinical studies and biomarkers
Keynote Speakers:
Rudolph Tanzi, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harrvard University
Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:
Guojun Bu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xiaoying Chen, Tsinghua University
Xin Cheng, Fudan University
Li Gan, Weill Cornell Medicine
Christopher Glass, University of California, San Diego
Alison Goate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David Holtzman, Washington University in St. Louis
Kanta Horie, Eisai and Washington University in St. Louis
Takeshi Ikeuchi, Niigata University
Atsushi Iwata, Tokyo Metropolitan
Takeshi Iwatsubo, National Institute of Neuroscience
Jianping Jia, Beijing Xuanwu Hospital
Jeffery Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute
Jonathan Kipnis, Washington University in St. Louis
Dmitri Krainc, Northwestern University
Yueming Li, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Inhee Mook-Jung, Seoul National University
Leonard Petrucelli, Mayo Clinic
Yong Shen, University of Science and Technology of China
Sangram Sisodia, University of Chicago
Weihong Song, Wenzhou Medical University
Gopal Thinakaran, University of South Florida
Taisuke Tomita, The University of Tokyo
Robert Vassar, Northwestern University
Yilong Wang, Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Peking University
Riqiang Yan, University of Connecticut
Hui Zheng, Baylor College of Medicine
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible to attend our international meetings since they are likely to benefit most from meeting other international colleagues in the same field. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards after the meeting to off set the registration fee. Announcements of the awardees will be made during the Banquet of the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you at Awaji, Japan in June, 2026.