Dr. Per Nilsson of Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, will be our next ISMND webinar speaker! Title: The role of #autophagy in #AlzheimersDisease – potential for treatment Nov 12, 2026 10am-11 am (ET) Host: Henrietta Nielsen, Stockholm University Register: bit.ly/4A1ogq2

🔗 Check out the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) press release highlighting ISMND 2026! hkust.edu.hk/news/hkust-host…

A huge thank you to everyone who made #ISMND2026 such a fantastic meeting! 🇭🇰 From inspiring talks to excellent posters, it was a wonderful few days of science and networking. Special thanks to @_BrightFocus for their continued support, and @MolNeuro and KSND for co-organising!

That’s a wrap on #ISMND2026! Scientists, clinicians, and industry leaders from around the world gathered in Hong Kong for the @ISMND1 - The International Society for Molecular Neurodegeneration conference. BrightFocus Foundation was proud to support the meeting as ISMND’s main sponsor and an organizing partner. A few highlights: 🔬 Dr. Jimmy Liu, Director of Vision Science Programs, opened the conference with welcome remarks on BrightFocus’s support for ISMND’s work bringing leading experts in molecular neurodegeneration to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 🔬 Dr. Liu also presented an overview of how BrightFocus funds bold science in mind and sight, and chaired the BrightFocus-sponsored short talk session. 🔬 Dr. Amanda McQuade, an Alzheimer’s Disease Research postdoctoral awardee, won a Best Short Talk award for her presentation “Transcriptional regulation of disease-relevant microglial activation states”! 🎉 We also congratulate the early-career researchers who attended with a BrightFocus Travel Fellowship: Omar Peña-Ramos, Amanda McQuade, Daanish Kulkarni, Danielle Cozachenco, Haojie (Jason) Chen, Hio Tong Kam, Tayná Rody, Wided Boukhalfa, Dong-Kyu Kim, Jessica Santiago, Ruixin Tao BrightFocus funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. Meetings like #ISMND2026 bring brain and eye scientists together to share the discoveries that move us closer to cures. #ISMND2026 #Neuroscience #Innovation

Thank you ISMND for another inspiring meeting!! It was so rewarding to share ideas with everyone this week!

That’s all folks! Thank you all for joining us as #ISMND2026! We hope you had a fantastic time ❤️

🔈HUGE NEWS! ISMND 2028 will be held from 9-11 October 2028, Leuven, Belgium in collaboration with VIB!

Closing the conference, we have Henrietta Nielsen, President of ISMND, and her closing remarks #ISMND2026

The winners of the Best Poster Awards! 🥇 #ISMND2026

The winners of the Best Short Talk Awards! 🥇#ISMND2026

The recipients of the BrightFocus Training Fellowships! 🎉 #ISMND2026

The recipients of the ISMND Travel Awards! 🎉 #ISMND2026

Getting close to the finish line! Guojun Bu hosts the closing session

Panel Discussion II: Therapeutic Strategies. Moderator: Robert Vassar. Panelists: Li Gan, David Holtzman, Peter Walter, Mathew Blurton-Jones

Closing the final short talk session, Weili Yang presents ‘Primate-specific #proteolysis generates a functional #PINK1 isoform that protects against #neurodegeneration independent of #mitophagy’ #ISMND2026

Next, Wenqing Gao @hkust discussing ‘Beneficial #TCell responses to central nervous system injury: mechanisms and therapeutic potential’ #ISMND2026

Dominik Paquet @PaquetLab @LMU_Muenchen presenting ‘Engineering of #iPSC-derived #microglia expressing Abeta-specific chimeric antigen receptors to target #AlzheimersDisease pathology’ #ISMND2026

Kaoru Yamada presenting ‘Enhancing AQP4-dependent #glymphatic transport promotes tau clearance and attenuates #neurodegeneration in a mouse model of #tauopathy’ #ISMND2026

Xiaolai Zhou discusses ‘Base editing for #PGRN-related #neurodegeneration: dual rescue of #retinal and cerebral disease in a humanized mouse model’ #ISMND2026

Peng Lei presenting ‘A E3 ligase F-box protein 48 licenses striatal neurons metabolically for #ferroptosis in #Huntingtons disease’ #ISMND2026