ISTAART Relay Podcast - Vascular Cognitive Disorders PIA
The Dementia Researcher, ISTAART Relay Podcast is back for a fourth series. Five leading researchers discussing their research, their field, and the work of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association ISTAART Professional Interest Area they represent.\n--\n\nPart Two \u2013 Dr Maura Malpetti interviews Beth Eyre, representing the Vascular Cognitive Disorders PIA.\n--\n\nMaura Malpetti is a Race Against Dementia Fellow at University of Cambridge. Maura focusses on multimodal imaging techniques (multi-tracer PET and MRI) integrated with fluid markers, post-mortem validation, and prognostic modelling approaches in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Maura is representing the ISTAART Frontotemporal Dementia PIA.\n--\n\nBeth Eyre is a PhD Student (although she recently submitted her thesis and will be defending very soon) at The University of Sheffield. Beth is investigating cognitive and neurovascular function in pre-clinical models of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and in a mixed model of Alzheimer\u2019s and atherosclerosis. Beth is representing the ISTAART Vascular Cognitive Disorders PIA.\n--\n\nThe Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer\u2019s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) convenes the global Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia science community. Members share knowledge, fuel collaboration and advance research to find more effective ways to detect, treat and prevent Alzheimer\u2019s and other dementias. Professional Interest Areas (PIA) are an assembly of ISTAART members with common subspecialties or interests.\n--\n\nThere are currently 29 PIAs covering a wide range of interests and fields, from the PIA to Elevate Early Career Researchers to Biofluid Based Biomarkers and everything in between.\n\nTo sign-up to ISTAART and a PIA visit:\nhttps://istaart.alz.org\n\nNote: ISTAART Membership is free for students worldwide, and for researchers of all levels based in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.\n--\n\nTo book your place at this year\u2019s AAIC (In-person and online) visit:\nhttps://aaic.alz.org \n--\n\nYou can also enjoy this show as a video podcast on our YouTube channel at:\nhttps://youtu.be/sIPLKvDtQUk \n--\n\nFind more information on our guests, and a full transcript of this podcast on our website at: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast \n--\n\nThe views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast represent those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect those of NIHR Dementia Researchers, PIA membership, ISTAART or the Alzheimer's Association.