Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is thrilled to extend our congratulations to the chair of our Research Consortium, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, and to Dr. Doo Yeon Kim, for receiving the prestigious Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award. The award recognizes “revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, education and social progress.” Drs. Tanzi and Kim ...
December 10, 2015
Beulah Franklin was happy, positive, and outgoing. She was artistic, and had a great sense of humor. She loved meeting all kinds of people, and everyone loved her. Born in 1927, Beulah grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts along with her sister, Hannah Sommerstein, with whom she remained extremely close for life. Beulah ...
November 29, 2016
Students at the College of New Jersey got more than candy for Halloween. Dressed in their costumes, the Psychology club raised over $1500 for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to support breakthrough research to find a cure. Sweta Shah, a psychology major from Toms River, NJ explained; “The Psych club decided to support ...
August 20, 2009
A new study, led by Cure Alzheimer’s Fund grant recipient Lee E. Goldstein, MD, Ph.D., of Boston University School of Medicine and co-authored by multiple researchers, including Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium chairman Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., and Cure Alzheimer’s Fund grant recipient Rob Moir, Ph.D., has found that war veterans ...
May 16, 2012
Dr. Rob Moir Researcher Dr. Rob Moir, a member of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Oligomer Collaborative, and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, presented research supported by Cure Alzheimer’s Fund in March to the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease/Parkinson’s Disease that points to evidence that the Abeta peptide, acknowledged to ...
April 7, 2009
On one of the hottest marathon days on record, three committed individuals ran 26.2 miles for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund—Peter and Ann Bulson of Wellesley, Mass., and Anna Shepard of Cape Cod, Mass. While they all had trained hard, nothing could prepare them for the blistering temperatures on Patriot’s Day 2012. Still, ...
March 28, 2013
The last decade of research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has seen the development of various anti-amyloid beta therapies (with limited efficacy) but also a significant renewed interest in the roles that microbes may play. While many different pathogens have been identified in higher levels in AD patients’ brains, no microbe ...
February 29, 2024
For the last 27 years, Abeta, a fatty protein that is created in the brain, has been identified as the leading cause of Alzheimer’s disease. As a result, the majority of efforts aimed at developing a cure have targeted Abeta as the enemy. But recent studies have indicated that simply ...
January 22, 2012
“Imagine waking up in the morning and not knowing where you were or who the people around you are,” writes 16-year-old Kelly Hulfachor, a sophomore at South Elgin (Ill.) High School. Last fall, all the students in Kelly’s health class were asked to research a charity they believe “helps the ...
January 28, 2014
When Gerry Nogelo of Vero Beach, Fla., turned 70 on Nov. 8, 2012, she only had one wish—to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. So she mailed more than 40 letters to her friends and family asking them to make a donation to Cure Alzheimer’s Fund in honor of her ...
December 24, 2013
