Tuesday 5 May 2015
19:00
A Ticking Timebomb – The Global Challenges of Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease
with UCL Professor John O’Keefe, Nobel Laureate, UCL President and Provost, Professor Michael Arthur and other UCL faculty
Professor O’Keefe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in October 2014 (alongside Professors May-Britt and Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology), for their discovery of place cells in the hippocampus that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
Professor O’Keefe’s other awards include: Feldberg Foundation Prize (2001); Grawemeyer Award in psychology (2006); Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience (2007); Federation of European Neuroscience Societies European Journal of Neuroscience Award, Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2008); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2014).
He is currently conducting ground-breaking work into Alzheimer’s; place cells are among the first to be hit in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
"John O'Keefe is one of UCL's outstanding neuroscientists and I am delighted that his work on the very basic question of how the hippocampus in the brain stores spatial information and thus allows us to navigate our way through a complex world, has been recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine."
Professor O’Keefe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in October 2014 (alongside Professors May-Britt and Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology), for their discovery of place cells in the hippocampus that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
Professor O’Keefe’s other awards include: Feldberg Foundation Prize (2001); Grawemeyer Award in psychology (2006); Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience (2007); Federation of European Neuroscience Societies European Journal of Neuroscience Award, Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2008); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2014).
He is currently conducting ground-breaking work into Alzheimer’s; place cells are among the first to be hit in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
