On Feb. 22, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services issued the first āDraft National Plan to Address Alzheimerās Disease.” The plan is mandated by the National Alzheimerās Project Act (NAPA), bipartisan legislation signed into law in January 2011 by President Obama. NAPAās goals are to: Create and maintain an ...
February 24, 2012
The Foundationās Largest Donation to Date Will Go Towards Alzheimerās Disease ResearchĀ (Wellesley, MA) ā July 18, 2017 ā Cure Alzheimerās Fund, a non-profit dedicated to funding the most promising research to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimerās disease, announced today that it has received a $900,000 donation from the Edward and ...
July 18, 2017
WELLESLEY, Mass., April 20, 2018:Ā A new public service announcement (PSA) created by BBDO New York on behalf of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has been released and is now playing in over 1200 movie theaters nationwide. The 2 minute film directed by David Shane of O Positive Films, titled “Daughter and Mother,” ...
April 20, 2018
Cure Alzheimerās FundĀ announced that it has reached a significant milestone, awarding more than $125 million in research grants since its inception. Since its founding in 2004, Cure Alzheimerās Fund (CureAlz) has supported 540 innovative projects conducted by 175 dedicated scientists from institutions throughout the world, resulting in more than 800 published ...
July 8, 2021
Nobel laureate Paul Greengard, a Rockefeller University professor has been awarded a $100,000 grant by Cure Alzheimerās Fund to continue his groundbreaking research on Alzheimerās disease, the most common cause of dementia in the elderly that currently affects 5.2 million Americans and their families. Paul Greengard, Ph.D., will use the grant ...
May 11, 2011
(Wellesley, MA) ā February 27, 2018 āCure Alzheimerās Fund, a non-profit dedicated to funding the most promising research to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimerās disease, announced today that the organization distributed $15.7 million in research grants to scientists around the world in 2017. The Wellesley-based non-profit saw growth in research spending ...
February 27, 2018
Alzheimerās research for many years has been dominated by a focus on Abeta āplaques,ā a focus that largely has overlooked the other infamous hallmark of the diseaseāthe tau-based neurofibrillary ātangles.ā The research world recently has broadened its scope to include significant research into tau. Cure Alzheimerās Fund is actively supporting this ...
June 6, 2012
This research will attempt to understand the following central cell biological questions: What is the sub-cellular site where AĪ² is secreted? Can the effects of AĪ² secretion on synapses be blocked by drugs? Preliminary data show that overproduction of either axonal or dendritic AĪ² reduces spine density and plasticity at dendrites close (~ ...
February 11, 2011
Charles Glabe of the University of California, Irvine and our Research Consortium and George Bloom of the University of Virginia have added significantly to the growing evidence of the link between the proteins Abeta and tau in initiating Alzheimerās disease. In a collaboration supported by Cure Alzheimerās Fund, the two ...
May 4, 2012
Breakthrough Research, Strong Fundraising, Mark Fifth Year of Cure Alzheimerās Fund Boston ā A small nonprofit organization fully dedicated to Alzheimerās research has quietly been making progress on an ambitious and aggressive research strategy for the development of effective therapies and discovery of an eventual cure for this devastating disease. Taking ...
January 10, 2011
