Guest lecture on “Key Insights of Transcription Factor EB on Mechanism – Based Therapeutic Approaches of Alzheimer’s Disease”

Centre of Molecular Medicine, Department of Biochemistry has organized a guest lecture entitled “Key Insights of Transcription Factor EB on Mechanism – Based Therapeutic Approaches of Alzheimer’s Disease” on 28.10.2022. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Ashok Iyaswamy, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Parkinson’s Disease, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. 40 active participants attended the seminar including under-graduate, post-graduate, research scholars as well as to the faculty members attended the seminar. The lecture was very much useful and gave a better understanding on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. The speaker clearly explained about the Alzheimer disease, the underlying three major pathological condition leading dementia, about the dysregulation of autophagy mechanism as one of the hall mark pathway for the disease progression and the cause of death under this condition. Additionally, he also explained about his formulated compound working as both diagnostic and therapeutic agent for Alzheimer disease in detail. Dr. Ashok also guided the post-graduate student to join Ph.D. and the benefits of doing Ph.D. in Hong Kong. He also shared details on the fellowships available for doing Ph.D. in Hong Kong Universities. All the participants interacted with the speaker enthusiastically and got their doubts clarified.