21.02.2018Alzheimer’s – New Approaches in Basic Research

PD Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Müller, AG Cell Signaling, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biochemistry II, Molecular Biochemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Research into Alzheimer’s disease has reached a turning-point: Many approaches towards treating the disease have failed and its causes seem less clear than ever. Currently a new research group is being established at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, examining new mechanisms which might be responsible for the disease. Does, for example, the cell nucleus and its genetic material play a more crucial role than hitherto recognised and can Alzheimer’s be described as some sort of cancer of the brain? The research group “Cell signalling” will present their approaches in the Brain Café.