The Israel Center for Addiction and Mental Health (ICAMH)
and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center (ELSC) for Brain Sciences at HUJI
organized an international conference on
Brain Iron, Homeostasis: Imaging and Intervention
The conference was held on Sunday, March 23, 2025
at the ICAMH Campus, 1 Shoken St., Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
The conference included the following lectures:
- The Side Effects of Addiction to Iron
Prof. Yoav Cabantchik, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel
Watch the Lecture>> - Impaired Regulation of Cytosolic Iron Homeostasis in Friedreich Ataxia
Prof. Agnès Rötig, Université Paris-Descarte and Institute Imagine, Hôpital Necker Enfants-
Malades, France
Watch the Lecture>> - Repurposing Artesunate in Friedreich Ataxia and Neural Brain Iron Accumulation Syndromes
(NBIA) — From Translational Projects to Clinical Trials
Prof. Arnold Munnich, Université Paris-Descarte and Institute Imagine, Hôpital Necker Enfants-
Malades, France
Watch the Lecture>> - The Significance of Regional Brain Iron Elevations in Neurodegeneration and Psychosis
Prof. Ashley Bush, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of
Melbourne, Australia
Watch the Lecture>> - MRI Mapping of Magnetic Susceptibility – Tools for Probing Brain Iron and Neurodegeneration
Prof. Karin Shmueli, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, University
College London (UCL), UK
Watch the Lecture>> - Targeting Labile Brain Iron in Schizophrenia – A Translational Tale of Mice and Men
Dr. Amit Lotan, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical Center and Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel
Watch the Lecture>> - Mapping Brain Iron with MRI: A Non-Invasive Approach to Iron Homeostasis
Prof. Aviv Mezer, Edmond and Lily Safra Center (ELSC) for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel
Watch the Lecture>> - Advancing Iron-Sensitive MRI Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Prof. Evgeniya Kirilina, Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and
Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Watch the Lecture>> - Targeting Iron as a Therapeutic Strategy for Neuroprotection in Parkinson's Disease:
What Lessons and New Directions?
Prof. David Devos, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Research Center, Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire de Lille, Fran
Watch the Lecture>>
