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
Annual Awards Support “Tomorrow’s Leaders in Alzheimer’s Disease Research;” Honor Legacies of Drs. George Glenner and Leon Thal April 9, 2008 – A coalition of leading Alzheimer’s disease organizations today announced the first three recipients of “Tomorrow’s Leaders in Alzheimer’s Disease Research” prizes; a new award mechanism to recognize outstanding young scientists ...
April 15, 2009
CELL has published the results of a collaboration between Rudy Tanzi, PH.D. and Huda Zoghbi, M.D. The work shows that a rare gene associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s, ATXN1, regulates an increase in BACE1, an enzyme that contributes to amyloid plaque accumulation. Neurodegenerative disorders tend to fall into two distinct categories ...
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“A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow “Coming from all sides, like flakes “Of sleep, and myself “On the road to the dark barn “Halfway there, a black dog is near me.” — Robert Bly, Melancholia, in The Light Around the Body, 1967 The bite of the black dog can be worse than its bark. ...
December 12, 2023
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly and a burgeoning unmet medical need that will only worsen as the average lifespan continues to increase. The prevalence of AD increases with every decade after the age of 60 and ~ 20% of the population can ...
August 20, 2009
From our 2011 Annual Report. Dear Friends, On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Research Consortium, we want to thank all the donors, researchers and academic institutional partners supporting Cure Alzheimer’s Fund research for your help in making 2011 such a successful science year. Guided by leading scientists in the ...
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