We are very pleased to announce our Keynote speakers:

KEYNOTE LECTURES (6):

Wednesday 11 June, 2025. 16:15-17:00 hrs, Keynote Lecture 1
Knowing the past, looking to the future: the importance of international collaboration in advancing medical knowledge
– Prof. David N. Louis, MD, Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and  Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Thursday 12 June 2025. 08:30-09:15 hrs, Keynote Lecture 2
AI-guided neuro-oncological pathology; towards the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
– Prof. Felix Sahm, MD, PhD, Dept. of Neuropathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday 12 June 2025. 16:45-17:30 hrs, Keynote Lecture 3:
A CCG expansion in ABCD3 causes oculopharyngodistal myopathy in individuals of European ancestry
–Dr. Andrea Cortese,  MD, PhD, University College London, Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, London, United Kingdom

Friday 13 June 2025. 08:30-09:15 hrs. Keynote Lecture 4
The Pathogenesis of  alpha-synucleinopathies
–Associate Prof. Wilma van de Berg, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Friday 13 June 2025. 16:45-17:30 hrs. Keynote Lecture 5
Adaptive immune response in the brain in healthy and inflammatory conditions
–Associate Prof. Joost Smolders, MD, PhD, Erasmus MC, Departments of Neurology and Immunology, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Saturday 14 June 2025. 08:30-09:15 hrs. Keynote Lecture 6
Neural stem cells: origin, heterogeneity and regulation in the adult mammalian brain
–Prof. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD, University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA

The content of the Symposia and Workshops will be published shortly. The program-at-a-glance and timetable can be viewed below (updated on 25 January 2025).