While donations attributable to 2011 are still arriving, it is clear that donors have contributed more to Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) in 2011 than ever before, a record making year of $4 million plus! A surge during the last weeks of the quarter has made the difference, for which all ...
January 4, 2012
In findings published on The Beacon, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund was selected among 11 charities for The Beacon’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide. Beacon analysts obtained data from charitynavigator.org, where Cure Alzheimer’s Fund scores a perfect 100 points. As of December 2016, the nonprofit had distributed over $48 million to Alzheimer’s research. ...
December 8, 2016
NY Times online columnist David Bornstein examines how the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and other organizations have taken a unique approach to research that is intensely goal-directed and collaborative, focusing on the creation of new cures and potential treatment as a process that needs to be managed. Bornstein notes the Fund ...
May 17, 2011
2023 Not everyone who harbors classic Alzheimer’s lesions in the brain (e.g., plaques and tangles) develops clinical symptoms of the disease. This study was designed to understand the mechanisms involved in such natural human brain resilience, as they may hold key clues for the design of novel cognitive-sparing therapies in the ...
October 15, 2018
Are you a Boston Globe subscriber? If so, we ask you to support Cure Alzheimer’s Fund through the brand new GRANT program (Globe Readers And Non-profits Together). Using this program, you can help us to gain free advertising space in the Globe newspaper at no cost to you. GRANT gives every ...
February 4, 2014
May Lead To New Treatments for Devastating Disease Chronic sleep deprivation in mice with Alzheimer’s disease type changes makes Alzheimer’s brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers lead by Cure Alzheimer’s Fund’s Dr. David Holtzman at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported online this week in ...
September 25, 2009
Upon the announcement that the Obama administration will put $156 million toward Alzheimer’s research within the next two years, ABC news covered the story and quoted Cure Alzheimer’s President and CEO Tim Armour: “Alzheimer’s threatens to bankrupt our health care system, affect the quality of care provided to patients and mature ...
February 8, 2012
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund proposes a National Research Strategy to accelerate progress toward a cure. The proposal builds on our own Research Roadmap, and provides a broader path to intervention by 2020. We have shared this draft with selected members of Congress and their staffs, and with the staff of the Alzheimer’s ...
March 25, 2009
Three years ago, singer and actress Jonatha Brooke moved her mother, Darren, to New York. Darren was in the mid-stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Jonatha then put her own life and career on hold to care for her mother. “I had no idea what I was getting into,” Jonatha says. In her ...
February 21, 2014
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund co-founer, Jeff Morby and Research Consortium Chairman, Rudy Tanzi were featured on the tv show Greater Boston, November 8th on WGBH channel 2 in Boston. Emily Rooney interviewed the two about the founding of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and success in the search for an Alzheimer’s Cure. Watch the ...
November 8, 2010
