In just its first year of operation, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund’s ambitious new Genes to Therapies™ (G2T) research program has bloomed far beyond expectations. “We’re firing on all cylinders now,” says Research Consortium Chair Dr. Rudy Tanzi. “It’s exactly where we need to be headed to stop this disease.” In 2015, Cure Alzheimer’s ...
February 12, 2016
Recent months have witnessed three remarkable developments in projects supported by Cure Alzheimer’s Fund: A team led by Research Consortium Chair Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., has, for the first time, created “Alzheimer’s in a dish”—a combination of both amyloid and tau pathology in human nerve cells living inside a Petri dish. A team ...
November 10, 2014
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January 30, 2024
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, impacting memory, thinking and behavior. It affects an estimated 32 million people worldwide, with one in 10 people older than 65 and nearly a third of people older than 85 having the disease. Alzheimer’s disease severely impacts a person’s ability to ...
December 8, 2023
Derek H. Oakley M.D., Ph.D. is a neuropathologist and stem cell biologist who specializes in the diagnosis and modeling of neurodegenerative disease. He completed his M.D. and Ph.D. training at Columbia University where he helped develop some of the first induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He ...
November 22, 2023
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Research Update There has been a spate of announcements about promising drug therapies, “new” genes and environmental factors affecting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the news lately. These are likely to increase as the media becomes more sensitized to the looming disaster that Alzheimer’s presents to the world. We thought it would ...
August 20, 2009
Florence Jane Benton joined the heavenly arms of Jesus on March 26, 2023 at the age of 81. A native of Lubbock, TX; she was born to the late William Franklin and Edith Thompson (Johnson) Mills on February 22, 1942. Florence married the love of her life, Bruce Eugene Benton, and ...
April 6, 2023
