Rocco was Italian and proud! He was born in Palermiti, Calabria, Italy In 1937. He loved hisĀ family and was extremely close to his beloved mother, Maria. In fact, he was what oneĀ would call a true Mammone!. Rocco enjoyed singing opera music, playing bocce ball,Ā tending to his garden, eating pasta, making ...
February 16, 2022
This proposal details in-depth work to find links between the two major brain changes in Alzheimerās disease: extracellular clumps of a protein called amyloid beta, and intraneuronal accumulations of another protein called tau. Specifically, we will investigate whether tau accumulations associated with amyloid beta clumps are different in regard to ...
January 6, 2023
September 24, 1944 – December 30, 2023 Born to Alice (Reilly) and Edward Smith in San Francisco, Susan Jane (Smith) Gallagher spent her entire life in the Bay Area. She attended Star of the Sea Academy and graduated from Mission High School. A non-traditional student, Susan earned her Bachelor of Science ...
January 9, 2024
Kathleen “Kathy” Marie Gallivan Casazza passed away on Friday, December 15, at the age of 75 surrounded by family. Kathy was born on March 13, 1948, at Brady Maternity Hospital in Albany, N.Y. to Charles Gillette Gallivan and Dorothy Margaret Carroll Gallivan. She grew up in Guilderland, N.Y. and attended Marylrose ...
January 9, 2024
Claudia was born on February 19, 1951, in Salt Lake City, UT to Gordon Paul Bischoff and Leila Evelyn Limb. She passed away on November 1, 2023, in Lehi, Utah after battling the debilitating effects of Frontal Temporal Dementia for many years. Her immediate family members were blessed to say their heartfelt ...
November 7, 2023
Dr. Joseph Ecker has been at the forefront of research to decode genomes and was a leader of the international effort to sequence the first plant genome, which was completed in 2000. More recently, he has turned to deciphering the epigenome, the layer of molecular tweaks that act on DNA ...
November 30, 2017
Dr. Grammas is best known for her pioneering research into the role that blood vessels and inflammation play in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on more than $24 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies and ...
September 6, 2017
To capitalize on this rare āscience momentā as Rudy (Tanzi)Ā calls it, we are committed to focused, disciplined funding of targeted research which we refer to as the Venture approach. All of our Founders have strong business backgrounds, and two of us are long-time venture capitalists. We have all made careers ...
August 20, 2009
Neuronal degeneration, or the death of neurons, is a critical aspect of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimerās disease (AD). However, the mechanisms leading to this neuronal cell loss and how this process is controlled are not well understood. Our laboratory has generated an innovative chimeric model for AD. In this model, ...
December 8, 2023
2019 There is much data that continue to point to accumulation of amyloid beta as a contributor to the pathogenesis of Alzheimerās diseaseāparticularly in early-onset versions of the disease. In Down syndrome, for example, a triplication of the number of inherited copies of chromosome 21 increases the gene dosage of the ...
August 9, 2018
