At age 28, Maria Pugliese may not be able to move mountains, but she certainly made an impact when she ran 60 miles across the Andes Mountains and raised more than $3,000 for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.On Feb. 3, Pugliese woke up at the site of the starting line in Chile, ...
January 18, 2012
Setting the stage The 10th Annual International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease/Parkinson’s Disease (AD/PD) was held this March in Barcelona with thousands of researchers from 68 countries attending. Chief among the topics of interest was determining risk for the disease from genetics. The useful source for all things Alzheimer’s, The Alzheimer’s Research ...
April 7, 2011
Jessica Lavorgna, age 11, from Tewksbury, NJ is raising money for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund for her 6th grade class project. Each student was asked to develop a project that somehow changes or improves our world. While some of Jessica’s classmates wrote letters to soldiers in Iraq or volunteered time at a ...
August 20, 2009
On Wednesday April 6, 2022, Jerry went to be with his beloved wife of 60 years, Lorraine, who preceded him in 2020. His daughter was holding his hand when he left. Jerry was born on June 19, 1938, in Brooklyn, NY, a fact he was proud to tell anyone who commented on his ...
May 10, 2022
In Loving Memory Luz and Israel Teicher 1935-2020 Israel “Izzy” Teicher, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and cherished member of the Jewish community, died in Stockton, CA, on December 29, 2020. His beloved wife, Luz Selenia Teicher (née Colón), mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt died a couple of days later in the first hour ...
January 4, 2021
Aging is the biggest risk factor for developing sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. But the changes that take place in the human brain as we age, leading to increased risk, remain largely unknown. A new investigation set out to identify the molecular underpinnings that occur in the aging brain. As a result, ...
March 7, 2024
October 15, 2019
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced today it has awarded a $300,000 grant to Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. Cure Alzheimer’s Fund will use the grant solely to fund research on Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia in the elderly and a burgeoning unmet medical need that only ...
April 21, 2009
Organization achieves 4-star rating for 5th consecutive time (Wellesley, MA) – June 2016 – Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is announcing that Charity Navigator has assigned the organization a score of 100 percent regarding its overall financial health. The nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities, Charity Navigator assigned this score by evaluating two areas ...
June 8, 2016
OLEG BUTOVSKY, Ph.D. Dr. Butovsky’s major scientific interest is to understand the biology of resident microglia and peripheral inflammatory monocytes in homeostasis and neurodegenerative conditions. During his Ph.D. studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he investigated the role of microglia in regulating the Aβ plaque deposition in Alzheimer’s models and ...
December 19, 2019
