Boston – A University of Virginia professor has been awarded a $100,000 grant by Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to continue his groundbreaking research on Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, which currently affects 5.2 million Americans and their families. George S. Bloom, Ph.D., will use the grant ...
April 28, 2011
October 28, 2020
Dear Friends, Why should you care about Alzheimer’s research? Currently, for every dollar spent on Alzheimer’s care, only a penny is spent working toward a cure. This is a bad equation for a disease that is estimated will cost well more than $100 billion in care (Medicare and Medicaid alone) in 2009. Cure ...
January 4, 2010
From the age of 2, when he disassembled his brother’s mechanical duck and his father praised him for his curiosity, Charlie Glabe was always interested in the way things work. In college he supported himself as a car mechanic, but found his true passion in scientific research. Today Charlie is ...
November 7, 2014
(October 29, 2012) (PRWEB) October 30, 2012 — The Brain Research Foundation (BRF) today announced that the 2012 recipients of the Frederic A. Gibbs Discovery Award will be Michael W. Ferro Jr. and David M. Holtzman, M.D. Michael W. Ferro Jr., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Merrick Ventures, LLC ...
October 31, 2012
Microglia are the innate immune cells that reside in the central nervous system and remove unwanted particles and debris from the brain. TREM2 is a receptor found on microglia and its activation increases amyloid beta uptake; the effect is therefore neuroprotective. An antibody designed to increase TREM2 activation has shown ...
October 7, 2022
A physician can’t cure what he can’t diagnose. The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is based on the exclusion of several neurological syndromes, rather than directly testing for the disease of interest. This can be an inaccurate exercise in up to 20% of the cases. Promising biomarkers are being developed, such ...
January 31, 2013
(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
One of the most enduring mysteries in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is closer to being resolved due to new work from the lab of Dr. Berislav Zlokovic: how the gene variant APOE4 increases the risk for cognitive decline and dementia. APOE4 is one of three major genetic variants (also known as alleles) ...
October 23, 2020
Several weeks ago, the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) Executive Committee and staff met with the members of our Research Consortium in Chicago. The purpose of the meeting was to review the progress of the different researchers and to brainstorm with them, as we do every year, about what modifications we should make to our roadmap to ...
November 21, 2013
