Max Needham left Savannah, Ga. on Nov. 1, 2015 and biked for 55 days across America, arriving in San Diego on the day after Christmas. “There were so many times where I was absolutely at the end of my physical and mental rope, and I pushed past it,” said Max. ...
November 6, 2015
2024 The Alzheimer’s Genome Project™ (AGP) is aimed at identifying and characterizing novel Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genes using an extensive genetic database consisting of our own collaborative and all publicly available AD genome-wide association study (GWAS), whole genome sequence (WGS) and whole exome sequence (WES) data. In the AGP, we use ...
January 9, 2020
(CHICAGO, IL) – OCTOBER 7, 2016 – Rotary and Cure Alzheimer’s Fund today announced an agreement to co-fund a new, groundbreaking research project to search for female-specific genetic and other factors contributing to women’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease. In total, the two organizations will provide a grant of $375,000 for ...
October 6, 2016
(New York City, NY) – August 8, 2016 – CaringKind, New York City’s leading expert in Alzheimer’s and dementia care for the past three decades, has formed an alliance with Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, a non-profit dedicated to funding research to prevent, slow, or reverse the disease. The new care and cure ...
August 8, 2016
WELLESLEY, Mass., May 30, 2024 — Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to funding the most promising research to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimer’s disease, has announced the recipients of the inaugural Jeffrey L. Morby Prize. Senior author David M. Holtzman, M.D., and first author Xiaoying Chen, Ph.D., both of ...
May 28, 2024
Dr. Daniel Reich is Senior Investigator at NIH/NINDS, where he directs the Translational Neuroradiology Section and leads clinical studies focusing mainly on multiple sclerosis (MS). He is also an attending neuroradiologist at the NIH Clinical Center, an Adjunct Professor of Radiology, Neurology, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, and an ...
April 22, 2024
Clare Marie “Cuffie” Hustedde, née Lohman, age 83, born in Aviston, Illinois, entered eternal life on January 6, 2019, at Whitney Place Nursing Facility in Natick, Massachusetts. Clare was born on July 27th, 1935 the daughter of Fred and Leona, née Vollet, Lohman. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in ...
January 7, 2019
BOSTON, MASS. (November 7, 2023) – Colby Davis of Boston, creating pendants, necklaces and other fine jewelry inspired by moments of everyday life, has selected Cure Alzheimer’s Fund as the beneficiary of its Pendants with a Purpose campaign for November 2023 The ‘Pendants with a Purpose’ campaign launched in October 2023, ...
November 13, 2023
An astonishing discovery of how to convert skin cells into other kinds of cells—including brain cells—earned Dr. Shinya Yamanaka the Nobel prize in 2012 and already has opened extraordinary new capabilities in science. Applied to Alzheimer’s disease, it has the potential to revolutionize how we do experiments. Right now, we ...
November 5, 2020
National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) Mirrors Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Approach Washington, D.C.—Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced today key implementation steps of the Obama administration’s National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA), including the investment of $100 million toward combating Alzheimer’s disease and the ambitious goal of having effective treatments ...
May 15, 2012
