A Conversation with Michel Goedert.

Abstract

Michel Goedert: It was probably even earlier. I believe we first met at the conference on “The Molecular Biology of Alzheimer’s Disease,” at Banbury in April 1988, which was my first meeting on Alzheimer’s disease. We (Aaron Klug, Claude Wischik, and I) reported the presence of tau protein in paired helical filaments. Our papers had been accepted for publication, but they hadn’t been published yet. So the work came as a surprise to many of the people who were there, because they didn’t know we were doing this. Today, the 1st of June, it is exactly 30 years since the first of those three papers was published.