You are invited to participate in an exclusive Catalyst Society Video Conference with a member of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium. David Michael Holtzman, M.D. will share new insights about the disease pathology and the opportunities and challenges facing the Alzheimer’s scientific research community. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. If we ...
May 4, 2017
April 24, 2017
In a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease, two key microglial receptors CD33 and TREM2, exert opposite effects on microglial activity and amyloid-beta pathology. Knocking out CD33 in this model had a beneficial effect by increasing microglial activation. Knocking out TREM2 using genetic manipulation of the mouse model, on the other ...
July 17, 2019
Eva-Maria Mandelkow studied medicine in Heidelberg and Hamburg, followed by a 3-year internship at university hospitals in Hamburg and Heidelberg, and then a doctoral dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, with research on enzyme kinetics of the motor protein myosin. She then performed postdoctoral research at ...
March 7, 2017
Dr. Eckhard Mandelkow studied physics in Braunschweig, New Orleans, and Hamburg, and received his doctoral degree at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg (for work on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus). This was followed by postdoctoral training at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA (on the structure ...
March 7, 2017
Dr. Schneider is a psychiatrist specializing in neurodegenerative dementia. She received her M.D. from Hamburg University, Germany and completed her residency at Tübingen and Göttingen University Medical Centers. She is a full professor of clinical dementia research at Bonn University and Chair of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric ...
June 5, 2020
Krista L. Moulder, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Neurology and Executive Director of the Charles F. & Joanne Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC) at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Moulder obtained her BA in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology from Northwestern University in 1993, and her ...
August 9, 2018
Dr. Gary Landreth and colleagues at Case Western Reserve published a paper online in Science Express yesterday that received much attention because of the rather stunning results it reports in stopping and even reversing “a broad range of Abeta-induced deficits.” A good lay version of this, with comments from Cure ...
February 10, 2012
Diagnostic Guidelines from the National Institute on Aging for Alzheimer’s disease
September 24, 2017
Corrine F. (Traeder) Shaw, age 87, of Janesville, died on December 3, 2018, at Cedar Crest Nursing Home. She was born near Rome, WI in Jefferson County on August 13, 1931, the daughter of Albert and Elsie (Vinz) Traeder. She married the love of her life, James L. Shaw, in ...
January 3, 2019
