Dr. Smith & Dr. Stokin, scientific advisor to CNS, spoke about neurodegenerative disease and drug discovery at the Vienna BioCenter

3/31/2026

Dr. Smith chaired 'From Infection to Inflammation: Viral Involvement in ALS' at the 16th annual ALS Summit

The details are as follows:

9:20 AM – 9:40 AM Eain Murphy, PhD (SUNY), “Neurotropic Herpesvirus HSV-1 as a potential etiological agent of Alzheimer’s Disease”

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM Nancy Sicotte, MD (Cedars-Sinai), “Viral infections as a trigger for multiple sclerosis: Is EBV the answer?”

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Avindra Nath, MD (NIH), “Endogenous retroviruses as a therapeutic target for ALS”

Dr. Smith and colleagues will be making presentations at two upcoming meetings

Dr. Smith and colleagues will be making presentations at two upcoming meetings:

1. the Neuroscience Society (11/15-11/19)

2. International ALS MND Meeting (12/4-12/6)