Invited Speakers
Patrick Drew, PharmD, PhD
Maître-assistant, Department of Psychiatry , University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
December 2025: "Probing cerebrovascular waves at the mesoscopic scale with functional
ultrasound imaging: glial modulation of vasomotion and hemodynamic contributions to CSF-ISF
exchange"
Mariel Kozberg, MD PhD
Clinician Investigator, Instruct, NSI Neuro Stroke MGPO, Mass General Research Institute, Massachusetts, USA
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Neurologist, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts, USA
October 2025: “Is decreasing amyloid production an effective treatment for CAA? The cAPPricorn-1 clinical trial "

Patrick Drew, PhD
Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA
Interim Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA
June 2025: “Understanding the drivers of spontaneous cerebral arterial dilation "
Léon de Bruin, PhD
Professor of Philosophy of Neuroscience at Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands.
Professor of Philosophy of Cognitive Diversity at Radboud University, the Netherlands.
March 2025: "Challenges and opportunities in measuring and modeling the brain: a philosophical perspective"

Salli Antila, MD
PHD candidate, Alitalo lab, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
January 2025: "Meningeal lymphatic vessels in Alzheimer's disease"

Geir Ringstad, MD PhD
Associate Professor - Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
September 2024: “MRI of intrathecal tracer propagation in CSF, brain and meninges”

Leon Smyth, PHD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kipnis Lab, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
April 2024: "Identification of direct connections between the dura and the brain"