Sue Carolyn Buchheit Root was born in Bloomsburg, PA, on March 1, 1937, to George Buchheit and Natalie Briggs Buchheit. Both her parents were exceptional athletes, and Natalie was never so proud than when, as a young child, Sue threw a softball so hard, it cleared the backyard fence and ...
November 11, 2019
This collaborative project will identify and characterize novel curcumin-like derivatives for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimerās disease. The purpose of the study is to develop means of overcoming obstacles to rapid breakdown and creating methodologies for precisely delivering curcumin derivatives to appropriate locations within the brain.
February 12, 2011
Founded in 2013 by Jake and Josh Akman in honor of their grandfather, Dr. Richard Hollander, The Dick Hollander Openā¢ is a charity golf tournament that raises money for Alzheimerās research. āA retired pediatrician and an extremely loving man, our grandfather has suffered for more than 15 years from Alzheimerās. ...
April 24, 2013
Weāre Janet Hilts and Susan Hilts Brown, twin sisters. Our dear friend Alexander has been our close buddy since we were in diapers and now has early onset Alzheimerās. As we help care for him, weāre training in our hills and raising money for the cure at the same time. ...
January 20, 2016
2022 Patients with Alzheimerās disease (AD) present with a disease-dependent increase in the brain expression of a small glial-derived secreted protein named SFRP1, which interacts with harmful amyloid products (among the culprit of the pathology) and downregulates an enzyme that prevents their generation. Neutralization of SFRP1 activity in mice counteracts several ...
November 4, 2020
I am an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. My research focus is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of Alzheimerās disease (AD) pathophysiology. A key feature of Alzheimerās disease (AD) is the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain decades before symptoms ...
October 29, 2021
Dr. Patrick is a Professor in the Neurobiology Section of the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Patrick is a leader in the field of ubiquitin-dependent protein turnover in neurons in health and disease. As a graduate student he made seminal contributions to ...
September 30, 2020
Four papers published this fall in leading science journals refer to the identification of new genes that confer risk for, or protection against, Alzheimerās disease. The articles: Bertram L and Tanzi RE. Thirty Years of Alzheimerās Disease Genetics: Systematic Meta-analyses Herald a New Era. Nature Reviews Neurosci 2008; 9:768-78. Bertram L, Lange C, ...
August 20, 2009
November 21, 2024
When Maggie Campbellās mother-in-law, Nancy Drapeau, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimerās disease last summer at age 59, Campbell decided she wanted to do something to help. Originally from Omaha, Neb., Campbell is a bookbinder and letterpress printer in Brooklyn, N.Y. Inspired by her mother-in-lawās garden in Dubuque, Iowa, Campbell designed and ...
December 12, 2012
