Cure Alzheimer's Fund: Targeting Breakthrough Research

Meet Cure Alzheimer’s Funded researcher, Giuseppina Tesco, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine

Born in Prato, Italy, in the heart of Tuscany, Giuseppina Tesco grew up with an older brother and two very open-minded parents. “My mother and father gave me a lot of freedom to make my own decisions about what interests I wanted to pursue,” says Tesco. “They were open to anything I wanted to do.” Her interest in research began in high school when she would go to the library to study molecular biology, independently of what she was learning at school. “Molecular biology opened up a whole new universe for me and it made me want to know more.” Click here to read the full article.