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Friday Families Meeting: with speaker Katie Brandt

Hear from speaker Katie Brandt, a global advocate, national dementia care expert and Director of Caregiver Support Services at Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.

Published:
Event date:
February 27, 2026
Mar 6, 2026 2:30 PM
Friday Families Meeting
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Dr. Sally Temple: Presentation on Brain Organoids for FTD

Brain Organoids: A human cell model to develop drugs for Frontotemporaldementia (FTD)-tau

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Friday, December 5, 2025
January 29, 2026
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Call for submissions: npj dementia - The Human Connection collection

Linde Jacobs and Tanya Steel are guest editors of an upcoming collection in npj dementia - The Human Connection. Submissions due by Aug 7, 2026.

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Event date:
November 30, 2025

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