Thursday Nov. 14 Friday Nov. 15
12:45 – 13:15 Welcome coffee
13:15 – 14:45 Part 1. Chemistry symposium
Chairpersons: Etienne Cavalier and Ellen Anckaert
13:15 – 13:45 Recent advances in blood-based biomarkers of dementia
Prof. M. Bjerke, Director of the neurochemistry Lab, UZ Brussel, Belgium
13:45 – 14:15 Applications of blood neurofilament-light in Laboratory Medicine
Dr. A. Ladang, CHU de Liège, Belgium
14:15 – 14:30 Oral Communication: Best abstract in Clinical Chemistry
14:30 – 14:45 Oral Communication: Second Best abstract in Clinical Chemistry
14:45 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Part 2. Keynote lecture on a general scientific topic
Chairperson: Matthias Cuykx and Myriam Ben Abdelhanin
15:30 – 16:15 The (rapid) evolving landscape of treatments for Alzheimer disease and the potential implications to screen (with blood biomarkers?) and to identify/follow-up patients eligible to treatments
Prof. Dr. B. Hanseeuw, Department of Neurology, Université Clinique Louvain, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard medical school, Boston, Massachusetts
16:15 – 17:45 Part 3. Peri-analytical
Chairpersons: Pieter Vermeersch and Jean-Louis Bayart
16:15 – 16:45 How to collect a sample from an external ventricular drain
Prof. P. De Vloo, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
16:45 – 17:15 Pre-analytical pitfalls in biomarkers Alzheimer’s disease
Dr. I. Verberk, Laboratory of Neurochemistry, UMC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17:15 – 17:30 Oral Communication: Best abstract in Peri-analytical in laboratory medicine
17:30 – 17:45 Oral Communication: Best Paper Prize
17:45 – 19:15 Congress Cocktail Reception in the Exhibition Hall
19:45 Congress Dinner

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