Bright Minds: How the brain's smallest blood vessels cause stroke, and what that means for us all

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the UK, and around a quarter of strokes occur in the brain’s smallest vessels. Cerebral small vessel disease rarely makes headlines, yet it silently damages the brain over decades and is the most common cause of vascular dementia.

Join Dr Klaudia Kocsy from the University of Sheffield as she explores how a single faulty collagen gene weakens the brain’s smallest blood vessels, and what this rare condition reveals about stroke risk in us all.
How is stem cell technology and gene therapy advancing preventative treatments for stroke? Can a patient’s own cells, grown in the lab, show us how to treat the disease? Are there really existing drugs that can be repurposed? Dr Kocsy explains all in the next Bright Minds webinar.

Please note that this online webinar will be recorded.