Tag Archive for 'ageing'

News and Events – August 2009

AWARDS
Petra Hoggarth was a finalist in the McDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Awards with her project ‘Older Drivers: Keeping the Car Keys’. Petra was awarded the runner-up prize in the ‘Science and our Society’ category at a gala dinner in Auckland.
In the brief video below, Petra describes her research:

CONFERENCES
John Dalrymple-Alford, Vineetha Chirackal, Charlotte [...]

The coming epidemic of Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s

In the brief (4 minute) movie below, biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a compelling case to show that neurological diseases of ageing, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, will be a major global challenge in the 21st century:

This was originally posted here as one of a series of many TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks. They cover a [...]