We congratulate Michael Meier and Luka Kulic on their inaugural lectures. On October 25th, Luka Kulic from the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, talked about “New disease-modifying approaches in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease” and on October 30th, Michael Lukas Meier from the Balgrist University Hospital gave his lecture entitled “From the brain to movement – new insights into the development and maintenance of back pain“.