On Oct. 10, leading researchers from the Cure Alzheimerās Fund Research Consortium, including Steve Wagner, Ph.D., Sangram S. Sisodia, Ph.D., and Chairman Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., gathered in Boston to discuss the road map to therapies. David Shenk, author of the national bestseller The Forgetting, Alzheimerās: Portrait of an Epidemic, moderated the ...
May 17, 2012
Routine blood tests have been a critical diagnostic tool available to the medical community since the 1940s. They are used to diagnose a wide range of ailments including cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and blood disease, all with a high degree of accuracy. However, an accurate blood test that predicts or ...
October 6, 2019
Eulogy for JoAnn Mincey by her granddaughter, Caitlin Collins April 21, 2016 Ā āThe price of great love is great sorrow at its end.ā This is a quote that speaks not only to the love my grandfather shared with my grandmother, but also to the love we all shared with her. Pure, unconditional, ...
April 26, 2016
āFor someone with a background in molecular biology and neuroscience, this is like going into outer space.ā SANGRAM SISODIA NEUROBIOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOĀ In 2014, John Cryan, a professor at University College Cork in Ireland, attended a meeting in California about Alzheimerās. He was not an expert on dementia. Instead, he ...
March 15, 2019
Transcript of the Testimony of Dr. Rudolph Tanzi Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor Neurology Harvard Medical School, Vice-Chair, Neurology Co-Director, McCance Center for Brain Health Massachusetts General Hospital Promoting Healthy Aging: Living Your Best Life LongĀ Into Your Golden Years U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging September 25, 2019 I want to thank ...
October 6, 2019
A new blood test, which has the potential to accurately diagnose Alzheimerās disease in individuals and significantly advance drug testing and research on the disease, has been developed through grant funding by Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.Ā The test, known as Immunosignature (IS) and developed by a team led by UCLA neurologist Lucas ...
April 28, 2014
Below is the text from an article included on the Eureka blog which provides an overview of the need for a multi-pronged approach to stopping Alzheimer’s disease. The work of Dr.’s Rudy Tanzi and David Holtzman, and the late Stephen Wagner, of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Leadership Group, is ...
November 2, 2023
Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Ā The four known Alzheimerās genes. Over the past several decades, it has become increasingly clear that inheritance plays a major role in Alzheimerās disease. The roughly 25,000 ...
July 14, 2011
Drs. Sam Gandy and Scott Noggle have received an NIH grant to gain new insights and identify potential therapies for Alzheimerās disease. Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph.D. of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and Scott Noggle, Ph.D., of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, are part of a research ...
September 19, 2013
One America Charity Ride 3,200 Mile Update – April 25, 2017 WhenĀ I last reported, I was just recovering from bruised ribs in Louisville.Ā I am happy to report that I am now feeling much better in Confluence, PA.Ā On the home stretch now. Some of you have asked if there would be a ...
April 27, 2018
