Welcoming Remarks

We are pleased to cordially invite you to the International Symposium for Molecular Neurodegenerative Disease Research 4 (ISMNDR 4), which will be held on August 21-23 at the department of chemistry, KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.

We have recently finalized a first round of inviations for ISNMDR 4. Now to researchers at large with research interests that overlap with ISMNDR, we would like to cordially invite you to be a participant and present in our symposium this Summer. If you have time in August, please don't hesitate to let us know and we can include your presentation if you have the chance to send us a timely abstract as an invited speaker! The following details are provided below. Please get back to us at your earliest convenience.

We are very eager and interested in keeping our stimulating and collaborative/interdisciplinary event going and its focus has been maintained with its form and function being close to its name of “molecular”.

Briefly, in previous years we have brought overseas researchers, such as Professors Moussa Youdim, Ashley Bush, Kevin Barnham, Jeff Kuret and Jonathan Doorn among others. The focus for the 2018 ISMNDR (ISMNDR 4) will be on addressing chemistry, biochemistry, and coordination chemistry that has bearing on the relevant and emergent hypothesis (amyloid, tau, metals, and oxidative stress) of the various neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s disease.

The closer the research is to well-defined reproducible molecular chemistry relevant to the disease pathway and involving disease models of greatest relevance, the more of an impact the conference will continue to have.

For our symposium, we have recently received financial support from the KAIST international cooperations committee and the BK21 plus project. Therefore, we have been able to extend cover for some speakers regarding the hotel fee, and in some cases the flight cost as well as local expenses such as meals.

Sincerely,

David G. Churchill and Mi Hee Lim

Organizers