Univ. of Pittsburgh, Mass General Hospital awarded Alzheimer’s Research Grant for Innovative Collaboration on Derivatives to Treat Disease

Univ. of Pittsburgh’s Dr. William Klunk & MGH’s Dr. Rudolph Tanzi to Discuss Joint Effort At World Alzheimer’s Day University of Pittsburgh Forum Pittsburgh  – Bringing together two esteemed institutions known for groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has awarded the University of Pittsburgh a $300,000 grant and Massachusetts General ...

September 22, 2010

Catalyst Society Video Conference with Murali Doraiswamy, M.D.

You are invited to participate in an exclusive Catalyst Society Video Conference with a member of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium. Clinician, scientist and policy leader Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., will speak about research progress and give insights into sex-based, ethnic and racial disparity in the diagnosis of the disease. The presentation will start promptly at 1 ...

July 9, 2017

How Assessing Blood-Brain Barrier Damage in APOE4 Carriers May Predict Cognitive Decline

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

Symposium Archives: 2012

On Oct. 10, leading researchers from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium, including Steve Wagner, Ph.D., Sangram S. Sisodia, Ph.D., and Chairman Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., gathered in Boston to discuss the road map to therapies. David Shenk, author of the national bestseller The Forgetting, Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic, moderated the ...

May 17, 2012

New Web-based Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Research Clearinghouse Launched

First-of-its-Kind Online Resource (ww.alzgene.org) Offers Researchers an Extensive Database of Studies on the Genes Associated with Alzheimer’s Risk Boston, MA – AlzGene, a web-based clearinghouse for researchers working to unlock the genetic makeup of Alzheimer’s Disease, has been launched as a way to gather and analyze studies by and for investigators ...

February 28, 2007

Alzheimer’s Genome Project™

2024 The Alzheimer’s Genome Project™ (AGP) is aimed at identifying and characterizing novel Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genes using an extensive genetic database consisting of our own collaborative and all publicly available AD genome-wide association study (GWAS), whole genome sequence (WGS) and whole exome sequence (WES) data. In the AGP, we use ...

January 9, 2020

Rudolph Tanzi

Rik van der Kant

Dr. Rik van der Kant is group leader of the Dementia Discovery group in Amsterdam. His research group studies cell-biological pathways downstream of genetic risk factors in Alzheimer’s disease. His work focuses on the identification of novel biological targets, and the development screening assays, in human iPSC-derived neural systems in order ...

January 11, 2021

Rik van der Kant

New Approach Yields Exciting Results on Origins of Alzheimer’s Disease: Testing of New Drug to Block Alzheimer’s Causing Abeta42 Aggregation Underway

Boston — A new approach developed for studying brain synapses has yielded valuable information about the production of Amyloid-Beta oligomers (clumps of the Abeta peptide) known to play a key role in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Published in the March 17 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience and funded by ...

March 17, 2010

The Cure Alzheimer’s Fund National Alzheimer’s Disease Research Strategy

Prepared by: Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. Chairperson, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School, Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Department of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital 114 16th Street Charletown, MA [email protected] Timothy W. Armour President and CEO Cure Alzheimer’s Fund 34 Washington Street Suite 300 Wellesly Hills, MA [email protected] The ...

August 20, 2009

Cure Alzheimer’s Fund’s Tanzi & Gandy featured on ABCNews.com “On Call + Alzheimer’s”

ABCNews.com has launched an online Alzheimer’s disease resource featuring informative tips and facts to help people better understand this devastating disease. The site features videos of Alzheimer’s experts and researchers answering questions about risk factors, research, latest treatments and other issues impacting people living with the disease and the people ...

May 6, 2009