For far too many of us, Alzheimer’s is a cause that is deeply personal. One such woman is Carolyn Mastrangelo. Carolyn’s mother has suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s for over 10 years. A personal trainer and avid runner, Carolyn wanted to incorporate her love of running and apply it to raising ...
January 8, 2010
Bobby Zerwick left his comfortable home in Pennsylvania last March 10 with two goals: To hike the entire Appalachian Trail this summer and to raise much-needed research funds to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The hike started at Springer Mountain in Georgia, and Bobby will hike north for a ...
June 4, 2012
Potential for New Therapies to Treat both Diseases The discovery of a molecular mechanism linking Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes could lead to exciting new drugs to treat both devastating diseases, according to new research published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found that the gene for ...
September 30, 2010
Discussion of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has been making the rounds of 60 Minutes, Radiolab, and the pages of the New York Times. Dr. Li-Huei Tsai, member of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Leadership Group whose work on the subject has been published in Neuron, has used this powerful technique in ...
October 25, 2018
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is extremely happy with the House Appropriations Subcommittee bill for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that was released today. The bill, which still has to be approved by the Committee and full House, includes a $1.1 billion increase for NIH, a more than 25% increase for the ...
June 16, 2015
We propose to test a combination of two potentially potent therapies for Alzheimer’s disease (AD): Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and an anti-amyloid treatment (gamma secretase modulator, GSM). In numerous animal models, modulation of amyloid beta levels (by immunotherapy or secretase blockade/modulation) has exhibited an ability to reduce AD-related neuropathology and ...
April 26, 2016
Drs. Sam Gandy and Scott Noggle have received an NIH grant to gain new insights and identify potential therapies for Alzheimer’s 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
Patricia “Gail” Whyte was born March 9, 1940 in Chicago to Harvey and Mary (nee Whalen) Burgie. She died November 24, 2020, at the Lutheran Home in Arlington Heights after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease complicated with progressive aphasia. Gail was a hard worker, a person who always kept herself ...
January 8, 2021
http://100Days100Courses.com “It’s either a golfer’s dream or a golfer’s nightmare.” That’s the phrase one local golfer is using to describe his upcoming cross-country road trip that will see him play 100 golf courses in 100 days, a distance of 9,368 miles from the first course to the last, in hopes of raising ...
March 4, 2019
Michael Ford Welch, age 68, resident of the Brookdale Spruce Wood assisted-living community, formerly of Somersworth, NH and Wakefield MA, died on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at the Wentworth Douglass Hospital after a lengthy ten year struggle with Alzheimer’s. He was born on October 19, 1953 in Rochester, NH; the son ...
February 14, 2022
