Yizhou Yu, who is a PhD student in the Martins lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit, has been selected to attend this year’s 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. From 25th-30th June, Yu is one of 635 young scientists from 98 countries who will be able to meet each other and around 40 Nobel Laureates. Yizhou's research focuses on potential therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease using cell and fly models in combination with human genetic, biochemical, behavioural and brain imaging data.

Since 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have made a name for themself as a unique international scientific forum, enabling exchange between generations, disciplines, and cultures. The theme of the Lindau Meetings alternates between the three Nobel Prize scientific disciplines – Physics, Chemistry or Physiology, and Medicine. This year’s meeting is dedicated to Physiology and Medicine and the main issues under discussion will be diversity in science, artificial intelligence in medicine and the impact of climate change on health.