Tau and Tau Therapies 101

Description: An overview of recent discoveries regarding the role of tau in Alzheimer’s disease progression, and treatments to target tau tangles and clear them from the brain
Runtime: 00:24:54

Speaker: Erik Roberson, MD, PhD
Speaker title: Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Speaker organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Event: 2024 Regional DIAD Family Conference: Moving Forward with Hope
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Year: 2024

Search tags: tau tangles, microtubules, drug targets, disease progression, preclinical Alzheimer’s, post-translational modification, anti-tau antibodies, passive immunotherapy, lecanemab, donanemab, antisense oligonucleotides, tau ASOs, gene therapy, clinical trials, small molecules, hyperphosphorylation, OGA inihibtor, tau PET scan