It is with sadness that we share the news of the passing of Jerome (Jerry) Rappaport, husband of our founder and Board member, Phyllis Rappaport, and dear friend to Cure Alzheimerās Fund. Jerry was an exceptional individual who made extraordinary contributions to the Boston community as a real estate developer and ...
December 7, 2021
At its core, Alzheimerās is a disease that disrupts communications between neurons (nerve cells) in the brain, and ultimately kills those neurons. Cure Alzheimerās Fund has committed to understanding this destructive process as a necessary component to stopping the disease. To that end, it has recruited four of the worldās ...
April 23, 2014
From Cure Alzheimer’s Fund President & CEO, Tim Armour: Iāve been talking about the ācost of Alzheimerāsā for years, but we just released our new numbers and the statistics are shocking. Over the next 10 years, we will spend $2 trillion on Alzheimerās care. Alzheimerās costs the federal government over $100 billion per ...
February 17, 2010
Cure Alzheimerās Fund is grateful to President Obama for the Administrationās continued commitment to curing Alzheimerās disease. With the implementation of the first ever National Plan To End Alzheimerās Disease, to which Cure Alzheimerās Fund was a contributor, and his specific targeting of the disease last night in the State ...
February 13, 2013
September 24, 2017
Meg Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of Cure Alzheimerās Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to funding research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing Alzheimerās disease. Meg was appointed CEO in 2023 after eight years of successfully advancing the research program at Cure Alzheimerās Fund. Through her stewardship, ...
February 21, 2018
Released today, the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget includes several important increases for medical research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will receive an additional $1 billion, incuding $68 million for the National Institute on Aging. These represent roughly a 1.1% and a 3.3% increase in NIH and NIA’s respective ...
February 2, 2015
Cure Alzheimerās Fund is thankful to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for their support of increasing vital funding for Alzheimerās disease research with the NIH. With a $400 million increase, theĀ proposedĀ budget for Alzheimerās research at the NIH will reach close to $1.4 billion, nearly triple what it was three years ago, ...
June 8, 2016
Cure Alzheimerās Fund a Longtime Supporter of Tau Research by Rudy Tanzi The New York Times has a front-page story on the spreading of tau pathology from neuron to neuron, citing papers from the laboratories of Dr. BradĀ Hyman of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Karen Duff of Columbia University. Cure Alzheimer’s Fund ...
February 2, 2012
On May 19, 2011, Glenn Caffery, age 49, set out from Seaside, Ore., to run 3,312 miles across the country to Westerly, R.I. He is running to honor his fatherāDick Cafferyāwhom he lost to Alzheimerās disease in 2002, and to raise money to help find a cure for this devastating ...
May 13, 2011
