If you are interested in attending:

Therapeutic Opportunities in Neurodegenerative Diseases
(a Winter Biotechnology Conference to be held November 30 - December 3, 2000 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

please visit the website http://nucleus.cshl.org/meetings/2000degen.htm. For more information and call (516) 367-6947 for convenient registration.

This conference will examine the latest research efforts towards understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and prion diseases. The use of inhibitors towards protein aggregation, secretase pathways and other targets, as well as a variety of approaches using stem cells, novel vaccines, gene therapy and modulation of hormone levels will all be discussed.