[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 180 (Monday, September 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 54673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-7732]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Notice

    The National Institute on Aging and several other Institutes of the 
National Institutes of Health will hold a conference entitled 
``Conference on Alzheimer's Disease: Setting the Research Agenda a 
Century after Auguste D'' on October 26-27, 2006. The purpose of the 
conference is to discuss future directions for the NIH Alzheimer's 
disease research agenda. The focus of the conference will be on 
discussing the research issues that must be addressed in order to 
provide more efficacious diagnostics and therapeutics to patients and 
their families.
    The conference will include a series of 30 minute presentations by 
experts in covering a broad spectrum of Alzheimer's disease research. 
The speakers will provide an overview of where research in a particular 
field is now and discuss what the critical questions and issues are 
that must be addressed to move the field forward.
    Persons interested in attending the conference should register at: 
http://www.tech-res-intl.com/nia/alzheimers_conference/default.htm.
    Registration is free but seating is limited. The Web site also 
provides information about hotel accommodations.

    Dated: September 12, 2006.
Neil Buckholtz,
Chief, Dementias of Aging Branch, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of 
Aging Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of 
Health.
[FR Doc. 06-7732 Filed 9-15-06; 8:45 am]
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