This gene provides the instructions for making the presenilin 1 protein. Presenilin 1 is part of the gamma-secretase complex, which cuts other proteins into small pieces. The gamma-secretase complex is best known for cutting the amyloid precursor protein into smaller pieces. One of the resulting pieces is amyloid beta.
April 24, 2023
Tammy joined Cure Alzheimer’s Fund in August of 2022 as a Science Communicator. Her job is to bridge the knowledge gap between scientists and those wanting to understand more about Alzheimer’s disease and the research being done by our funded scientists. Tammy has a B.S. in Chemistry from The Stephen F. ...
August 31, 2022
Don was born in May, 1938, to parents Raymond and Pauline Brewer on a farm outside of Perrysville, Indiana, and graduated to heaven on April 20, 2022 in Lake Forest, California. He was a loving husband, papa, brother and uncle. He is survived by his loving wife of 36 years, ...
July 1, 2022
Dr. Steven E. Arnold is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Translational Neurology Head and Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. After receiving his M.D. from Boston University, Dr. Arnold completed residency training in Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute / ...
July 11, 2023
Despite high levels of amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles in their brain, some individuals never develop symptoms of dementia in their lifetime. Resilience to pathology leading to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be associated with reduced levels of neuroinflammation, thought to be universal in symptomatic AD. But what in the AD ...
March 7, 2024
Jennifer joined Cure Alzheimer’s Fund in 2023. She brings nearly two decades of nonprofit marketing and communications experience to her role. Before joining CureAlz, Jennifer worked for several nonprofits in both health and education. Her work focused on creating mission-driven, comprehensive marketing and communications campaigns and strategies to raise awareness and ...
May 8, 2023
This gene provides the instructions for making the presenilin 2 protein. Like presenilin 1, presenilin 2 is part of the gamma-secretase complex. Among other things, the gamma-secretase complex cuts the amyloid precursor protein into small pieces. One of the resulting pieces is amyloid beta.
April 24, 2023
Michael Ford Welch, age 68, resident of the Brookdale Spruce Wood assisted-living community, formerly of Somersworth, NH and Wakefield MA, died on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at the Wentworth Douglass Hospital after a lengthy ten year struggle with Alzheimer’s. He was born on October 19, 1953 in Rochester, NH; the son ...
February 14, 2022
Michael Daniel Sulkin M.D., Distinguished Vascular Surgeon Dr. Michael Daniel Sulkin, 79, of Silver Spring, Maryland, died peacefully on December 20, 2018. He was the son of the late George R. Sulkin and June Toy Sulkin of Newton, Massachusetts, and brother of the late Barbara Lourie of Natick, Massachusetts. He married Linda ...
January 8, 2019
Dr. Kate Schwetye earned a combined M.D.-Ph.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL), where she worked in the labs of Drs. David Holtzman and David Brody studying the dynamics of amyloid-beta peptide in vivo in the brain interstitial fluid in a mouse model of traumatic injury ...
February 23, 2023
