These projects were made possible from Cure Alzheimer's Fund support.
These published papers resulted from Cure Alzheimer’s Fund support.
Rudy Tanzi, Se Hoon Choi Exercise and Improved Cognition, Science , September 6, 2018, Read More
Joseph Park, Isaac Wetzel, Ian Marriott, Didier Dréau, Carla D’Avanzo, Doo Yeon Kim, Rudolph E. Tanzi & Hansang Cho A 3D human triculture system modeling neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease, Nature Neuroscience , June 27, 2018, Read More
William A. Eimer,1,2 Deepak Kumar Vijaya Kumar,1,2 Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam,Alex S. Rodriguez, Teryn Mitchell, Kevin J. Washicosky, Bence Gyorgy, Xandra O. Breakefield, Rudolph E. Tanzi, and Robert D. Moir Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated b-Amyloid Is Rapidly Seeded by Herpesviridae to Protect against Brain Infection, Neuron (Cell), July 11, 2018, Read More
Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales, Cesar L. Moreno, Ilya Kruglikov, Paula Marazuela, Andrew Sproul, Samson Jacob, Matthew Zimmer, Daniel Paull, Bin Zhang, Eric E. Schadt, Michelle E. Ehrlich, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ottavio Arancio, Scott Noggle, Sam Gandy CRISPR/Cas9-Correctable mutation-related molecular and physiological phenotypes in iPSC-derived Alzheimer’s PSEN2(N141I) neurons, Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 5, 27 Oct 2017, 77, Read More
Myles R. Minter, Reinhard Hinterleitner, Marlies Meisel, Can Zhang, Vanessa Leone, Xiaoqiong Zhang, Paul Oyler-Castrillo, Xulun Zhang, Mark W. Musch, Xunuo Shen, Bana Jabri, Eugene B. Change, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Sangram Sisodia Antibiotic-induced perturbations in microbial diversity during post-natal development alters amyloid pathology in an aged APP(SWE)/PS1(Delta E9) murine model of Alzheimer’s disease, Scientific Reports, 7, 5 Sep 2017, Read More
Kanchana Padmanabhan, Kelly Nudelman, Steve Harenberg, Gonzalo Bello, Dongwha Sohn, Katie Shpanskaya, Priyanka Tiwari Dikshit, Pallavi S. Yerramsetty, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Andrew J. Saykin, Jeffrey R. Petrella, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Nagiza F. Samatova, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Characterizing Gene and Protein Crosstalks in Subjects at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s Disease: A New Computational Approach, Processes, 5(3), Sep 2017, 47, Read More
Dragan Gamberger, Nada Lavrač, Shantanu Srivatsa, Rudolph E. Tanzi, P. Murali Doraiswamy Identification of clusters of rapid and slow decliners among subjects at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, Scientific Reports, 7, 28 Jul 2017, Read More
Feng Liang, Yu Wan, Diane Schaak, Joseph Ward, Xunuo Shen, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Can Zhang, Qimin Quan Nanoplasmonic fiber tip probe detects significant reduction of intracellular Alzheimer’s diseaserelated oligomers by curcumin, Scientific Reports, 7, 18 Jul 2017, Read More
Steven L. Wagner, Kevin D. Rynearson, Steven K. Duddy, Can Zhang, Phuong D. Nguyen, Ann Becker, Uyen Vo, Deborah Masliah, Louise Monte, Justin B. Klee, Corinne M. Echmalian, Weiming Xia, Luisa Quinti, Graham Johnson, Jiunn H. Lin, Doo Y. Kim, William C. Mobley, Robert A. Rissman, Rudolph E. Tanzi Pharmacological and Toxicological Properties of the Potent Oral gamma-Secretase Modulator BPN-15606, Journal Of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, 362(1), Jul 2017, 31-44, Read More
Heide Loehlein Fier, Dmitry Prokopenko, Julian Hecker, Michael H. Cho, Edwin K. Silverman, Scott T. Weiss, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Christoph Lange On the association analysis of genome-sequencing data: A spatial clustering approach for partitioning the entire genome into nonoverlapping windows, Genetic Epidemiology, 41(4), 20 Mar 2017, 332–340, Read More
Deepak Kumar Vijaya Kumar , William A Eimer , Rudolph E Tanzi and Robert D Moir Alzheimer’s disease: the potential therapeutic role of the natural antibiotic amyloid-β peptide, Neurodegenerative Disease Management, 6(5), 7 Sep 2016, 345–348, Read More
Wilbur Song, Basavaraj Hooli, Kristina Mullin, Sheng Chih Jin, Marina Cella, Tyler K. Ulland, Yaming Wang, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Marco Colonna Alzheimer’s disease-associated TREM2 variants exhibit either decreased or increased ligand-dependent activation, Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(4), Apr 2017, 381–387, Read More
C Herold, B V Hooli, K Mullin, T Liu, J T Roehr, M Mattheisen, A R Parrado, L Bertram, C Lange and R E Tanzi Family-based association analyses of imputed genotypes reveal genome-wide significant association of Alzheimer’s disease with OSBPL6, PTPRG, and PDCL3, Molecular Psychiatry, February 2016, Read More
Carla D'Avanzo, Jenna Aronson, Young Hye Kim, Se Hoon Choi, Rudolph E. Tanzi and Doo Yeon Kim Alzheimer’s in 3D culture: Challenges and perspectives, BioEssays, 37(10), October 2015, 1139–1148, Read More
Young Hye Kim, Se Hoon Choi, Carla D'Avanzo, Matthias Hebisch, Christopher Sliwinski, Enjana Bylykbashi, Kevin J Washicosky, Justin B Klee, Oliver Brüstle, Rudolph E Tanzi & Doo Yeon Kim A 3D human neural cell culture system for modeling Alzheimer’s disease, Nature Protocols, 10(7), June 2015, 985–1006, Read More
Carla D’Avanzo, Christopher Sliwinski, Steven L. Wagner, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Doo Yeon Kim, and Dora M. Kovacs γ-Secretase modulators reduce endogenous amyloid β42 levels in human neural progenitor cells without altering neuronal differentiation, The FASEB Journal, 29(8), 22 April 2015, 3335-3341, Read More
Karthikeyan Veeraraghavalu, Can Zhang, Xiaoqiong Zhang, Rudolph E. Tanzi, and Sangram S. Sisodia Age-Dependent, Non-Cell-Autonomous Deposition of Amyloid from Synthesis of β-Amyloid by Cells Other Than Excitatory Neurons, J Neurosci, 34(10), 5 March 2014, 3668-3673, Read More
Xu Z, Dong Y, Wang H, Culley DJ, Marcantonio ER, Crosby G, Tanzi RE, Zhang Y, Xie Z Age-dependent postoperative cognitive impairment and Alzheimer-related neuropathology in mice, Sci Rep, 4, January 20, 2014, 3766, Read More
Jaehong Suh, Se Hoon Choi, Donna M. Romano, Moira A. Gannon, Andrea N. Lesinski, Doo Yeon Kim, Rudolph E. Tanzi ADAM10 Missense Mutations Potentiate β-Amyloid Accumulation by Impairing Prodomain Chaperone Function, Neuron, 80(2), Oct 16, 2013, 385–401, Read More
Li A, Ahsen OO, Liu JJ, Du C, McKee ML, Yang Y, Wasco W, Newton-Cheh CH, O'Donnell CJ, Fujimoto JG, Zhou C, Tanzi RE Silencing of the Drosophila ortholog of SOX5 in heart leads to cardiac dysfunction as detected by optical coherence tomography, Hum Mol Genet, 22(18), September 15, 2013, 3798-3806, Read More
Rudolph E Tanzi Decoding Alzheimer’s in the age of genome-wide analyses, Mol Neurodegener, 8(suppl 1), September 13. 2013, 01, Read More
Zhongcong Xie, MD, PhD, Sayre McAuliffe, Celeste A. Swain, Sarah A. P. Ward, Catherine A. Crosby, Hui Zheng, Janet Sherman, Yuanlin Dong, Yiying Zhang, Neelakantan Sunder, Dennis Burke, Kevin Washicosky, Rudolph E. Tanzi, and Edward R. Marcantonio Cerebrospinal Fluid Aβ to Tau Ratio and Postoperative Cognitive Change, Annals of Surgery, Ann Surg 2013;00, 5/10/2013, 1-6, Read More, Download Paper
BV Hooli1, ZM Kovacs-Vajna2, K Mullin1, MA Blumenthal1, M Mattheisen3, C Zhang1, C Lange4, G Mohapatra5, L Bertram6 and RE Tanzi1 Rare autosomal copy number variations in early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease, Molecular Psychology, 6/11/2013, Read More, Download Paper
Wagner SL, Tanzi RE, Mobley WC, Galasko D Potential Use of γ-Secretase Modulators in the Treatment of Alzheimer Disease, Arch Neurol., July 16, 2012, Read More
Wu X, Lu Y, Dong Y, Zhang G, Zhang Y, Xu Z, Culley DJ, Crosby G, Marcantonio ER, Tanzi RE, Xie Z The inhalation anesthetic isoflurane increases levels of proinflammatory TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-1β, Neurobiology of Aging, 33(7), July 2012, 1364-78, Read More
B.V. Hooli, PhD, G. Mohapatra, PhD, M. Mattheisen, MD, A.R. Parrado, PhD, J.T. Roehr, MS, Y. Shen, PhD, J.F. Gusella, PhD, R. Moir, PhD, A.J. Saunders, PhD, C. Lange, PhD, R.E. Tanzi, PhD and L. Bertram, MD Role of common and rare APP DNA sequence variants in Alzheimer disease, Neurology 78, 78/16, April 17, 2012, 1250-1257, Read More
Xie Z, Dong Y, Maeda U, Xia W, Tanzi RE RNAi-mediated knock-down of Dab and Numb attenuate Aβ levels via γ-secretase mediated APP processing, Transl Neurodegener., 1:8, Mar 22, 2012, Read More
Lill CM, Roehr JT, McQueen MB, Kavvoura FK, Bagade S, Schjeide BM, Schjeide LM, Meissner E, Zauft U, Allen NC, Liu T, Schilling M, Anderson KJ, Beecham G, Berg D, Biernacka JM, Brice A, DeStefano AL, Do CB, Eriksson N, Factor SA, Farrer MJ, Foroud T, Gasser T, Hamza T, Hardy JA, Heutink P, Hill-Burns EM, Klein C, Latourelle JC, Maraganore DM, Martin ER, Martinez M, Myers RH, Nalls MA, Pankratz N, Payami H, Satake W, Scott WK, Sharma M, Singleton AB, Stefansson K, Toda T, Tung JY, Vance J, Wood NW, Zabetian CP; 23andMe Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease Consortium; International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium; Parkinson's Disease GWAS Consortium; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2), Young P, Tanzi RE, Khoury MJ, Zipp F, Lehrach H, Ioannidis JP, Bertram L Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson’s disease genetics: The PDGene database, PLoS Genet., 8(3), March 2012, e1002548, Read More
Yiying Zhang MD, MS1, Zhipeng Xu MD, PhD1, Hui Wang MD1,2, Yuanlin Dong MD, MS1, Hai Ning Shi PhD, DVM3, Deborah J. Culley MD4, Gregory Crosby MD4, Edward R. Marcantonio MD5, Rudolph E. Tanzi PhD.6, Zhongcong Xie MD, PhD1,* Anesthetics Isoflurane and Desflurane Differently Affect Mitochondrial Function, Learning, and Memory, Annals of Neurology, Volume 71, Issue 5, February 24, 2012, 687–698, Read More
Sungho Wona, Qing Luc, Lars Bertram, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Christoph Lange On the Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Robust and Efficient Approach to Combine Population and Family-Based Studies, Human Heredity, 73, January 18, 2012, 35-46, Read More
Sarajärvi T, Tuusa JT, Haapasalo A, Lackman JJ, Sormunen R, Helisalmi S, Roehr JT, Parrado AR, Mäkinen P, Bertram L, Soininen H, Tanzi RE, Petäjä-Repo UE, Hiltunen M Cysteine 27 Variant of the δ-Opioid Receptor Affects Amyloid Precursor Protein Processing through Altered Endocytic Trafficking, Mol Cell Biol., 31(11), June 2011, 2326–2340, Read More
A. Li, C. Zhou, J. Moore, P. Zhang, T.-H. Tsai, H.-C. Lee, D.M. Romano, M.L. McKee, D.A. Schoenfeld, M.J. Serra,3 K. Raygor, H.F. Cantiello, J.G. Fujimoto, and R.E. Tanzi Changes in the Expression of the Alzheimer’s Disease- Associated Presenilin Gene in Drosophila Heart Leads to Cardiac Dysfunction, NIHPA Author Manuscripts, 8/3, May 1, 2011, 313-322, Read More
Viswanathan J, Haapasalo A, Bottcher C, Miettinen R, Kurkinen KMA, Lu A, Thomas A, Maynard CJ, Romano D, Hyman BT, Berezovska O, Nertram L, Soininen H, Dantuma NP, Tanzi RE, Hiltunen M Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Ubiquilin-1 Regulates Presenilin-1 Accumulation and Aggresome Formation, Traffic, 12(3), Mar 12, 2011, 330-48, Read More
Brit-Maren M. Schjeide, BS; Cathrin Schnack, PhD; Jean-Charles Lambert, PhD; Christina M. Lill, MD; Julia Kirchheiner, MD, PhD; Hayrettin Tumani, MD; Markus Otto, MD; Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD; Hans Lehrach, PhD; Philippe Amouyel, PhD; Christine A. F. von Arnim, MD; Lars Bertram, MD The Role of Clusterin, Complement Receptor 1, and Phosphatidylinositol Binding Clathrin Assembly Protein in Alzheimer Disease Risk and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Levels, Arch Gen Psychiatry, 68(2), February 7, 2011, 207-213, Read More
Mannix RC, Zhang J, Park J, Zhang X, Bilal K, Walker K, Tanzi RE, Tesco G, Whalen MJ Age-dependent effect of apolipoprotein E4 on functional outcome after controlled cortical impact in mice, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 31, January 2011, 351–61, Read More
Bertram L, Lill CM, Tanzi RE The Genetics of Alzheimer Disease: Back to the Future, Neuron, 68(2), Oct 21, 2010, 270-81, Read More
Zhang C, Browne A, Child D, Tanzi RE Curcumin Decreases Amyloid-β Peptide Levels by Attenuating the Maturation of Amyloid-β Precursor Protein, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285(37), Sep 10, 2010, 28472-80, Read More
Moncaster JA, Pineda R, Moir RD, Lu S, Burton MA, Ghosh JG, Ericsson M, Soscia SJ, Mocofanescu A, Folkerth RD, Robb RM, Kuszak JR, Clark JI, Tanzi RE, Hunter DG, Goldstein LE Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid-β Links Lens and Brain Pathology in Down Syndrome, PLoS ONE, 5(5), May 20, 2010, Read More
Zhang C, Browne A, Child D, DiVito JR, Stevenson JA, Tanzi RE Loss-of-Function of ATXN1 Increases Amyloid-Beta Levels by Potentiating Beta-Secretase Processing of APP, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285(12), Mar 19, 2010, 8515-26, Read More
Gianni D, Li A, Tesco G, McKay KM, Moore J, Raygor K, Rota M, Gwathmey JK, Dec GW, Aretz T, Leri A, Semigran MJ, Anversa P, Macgillivray TE, Tanzi RE, delMonte F. Protein Aggregates and Novel Presenilin Gene Variants in Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, 121(10), Mar 16, 2010, 1216-26, Read More
Zhang C, Browne A, Kim DY, Tanzi RE Familial Alzheimer’s Disease Mutations in Presenilin 1 Do Not Alter Levels of the Secretase Amyloid-Beta Protein Precursor Generated by Beta-Secretase Cleavage, Current Alzheimer Research, 7(1), February 2010, 21-6, Read More
Giedraitis V, Glaser A, Sarajarvi T, Brundin R, Gunnarsson MD, Schjeide B-M, Tanzi RE, Helisalmi S, Pirttila T, Kilander L, Lannfelt L, Soininen H, Bertram L, Ingelsson M, Hiltunen M CALHM1 P86L polymorphism does not alter amyloid-β or tau in cerebrospinal fluid, Neuroscience Letters, Volume 469, Issue 2, Jan 22 2010, 265-267, Read More
Won S, Bertram L, Becker D, Tanzi RE, Lange C. Maximizing the Power of Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Novel Class of Powerful Family – Based Association Tests, Statistics in Biosciences, 1(2), Nov 2009, 125-143, Read More
Bertram, L, Tanzi RE Genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer’s disease, Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 18, Review Issue 2, Oct 15, 2009, Read More
Kim M, Suh J, Romano D, Truong MH, Mullin K, Hooli B, Norton D, Tesco G, Elliot K, Wagner SL, Moir RD, Becker KD, Tanzi RE. Potential late-onset Alzheimer’s disease-associated mutations in the ADAM10 gene attenuate alpha-secretase activity., Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 18, Oct 15, 2009, Read More
Hooli BV, Tanzi RE A current view of Alzheimer’s disease, F1000 Biology Rep., 1, July 8, 2009, 54, Read More
Dong Y, Zhang G, Zhang B, Moir RD, Xia W, Marcantonio ER, Culley DJ, Crosby G, Tanzi RE, Xie Z The Common Inhalational Anesthetic Sevoflurane Induces Apoptosis and Increases β-Amyloid Protein Levels, Archives of Neurology, Vol. 66 No. 5, May 2009, Read More
Schjeide BM, McQueen MB, Mullin K, DiVito J, Hogan MF, Parkinson M, Hooli B, Lange C, Blacker D, Tanzi RE, and Bertram L. Assessment of Alzheimer’s disease case-control associations using family-based methods, Neurogenetics, DOI 10.1007/s10048-008-1051-3,, Feb 10, 2009, 568-580, Read More
Schjeide BM, Hooli B, Parkinson M, Hogan MF, DiVito J, Mullin K, Blacker D, Tanzi RE, Bertram L GAB2 as an Alzheimer Disease Susceptibility Gene, Follow up of Genomewide Association Results, Arch Neurol, 66, Feb 2009, 250 – 254, Read More
Bertram L, Schjeide BM, Hooli B, Mullin K, Hiltunen M, Soininen H, Ingelsson M, Lannfelt L, Blacker D, Tanzi RE. No association between CALHM1 and Alzheimer’s disease risk., Cell, 135(6), Dec 12 2008, 993-4, Read More
Xie Z, Culley DJ, Dong Y, Zhang G, Zhang B, Moir RD, Frosch MP, Crosby G, Tanzi RE. The common inhalation anesthetic isoflurane induces caspase activation and increases Aβ level in vivo., Annals of Neurology, Volume 64, Dec 2008, Read More
Cotton RG, Auerbach AD, Axton M, Barash CI, Berkovic SF, Brookes AJ, Burn J, Cutting G, den Dunnen JT, Flicek P, Freimer N, Greenblatt MS, Howard HJ, Katz M, Macrae FA, Maglott D, Möslein G, Povey S, Ramesar RS, Richards CS, Seminara D, Smith TD, Sobrido MJ, Solbakk JH, Tanzi RE, Tavtigian SV, Taylor GR, Utsunomiya J, Watson M The Human Variome Project, Science., 322(5903), Nov 7 2008, 861-2, Read More
Bertram L, Lange CL, Mullin K, Parkinson M, Hsiao M, Hogan MF, Schjeide BMM, Hooli B, DeVito J, Ionita I, Jiang H, Laird N, Moscarillo T, Ohlsen KL, Elliott K, Wang X, Hu-Lince D, Ryder M, Murphy A, Wagner SL, Blacker D, Becker KD, Tanzi RE. Genome-wide Association Analysis Reveals Putative Alzheimer’s Disease Susceptibility Loci in Addition to APOE, Am. J. Hum. Genet., 83, November 2008, 623-632, Read More
Schaffer B, Bertram L, Miller L, Mullin K, Weintraub S, Johnson N, Bigio E, Mesulam M, Wiedau-Pazos M, Jackson G, Cummings J, Cantor R, Levey A, Tanzi RE, and Geschwind D Association of GSK3B with Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia, Arch. Neurol., 65(10), October 2008, 1368-1374, Read More
Bertram L, Tanzi RE Thirty years of Alzheimer’s disease genetics: the implications of systematic meta-analyses, Nature Reviews Neurosci., October 2008, Read More
Zhang B, Dong Y, Zhang G, Moir RD, Xia W, Yue Y, Tian M, Culley DJ, Crosby G, Tanzi RE, Xie Z The inhalation anesthetic desflurane induces caspase activation and increases amyloid-beta protein levels under hypoxic conditions., J Biol Chem., 2;283(18), May 2, 2008, 11866-75, Read More
Zhang G, Dong Y, Zhang B, Ichinose F, Wu X, Culley DJ, Crosby G, Tanzi RE, Xie Z. Isoflurane-induced caspase-3 activation is dependent on cytosolic calcium and can be attenuated by memantine., J Neurosci, 28, April 23, 2008, 4551-60, Read More
Tesco G, Koh YH, Kang E, Cameron A, Das S, Sena-Esteves M, Hiltunen, Yang S-H, Zhong Z, Shen Y, Simpkins J, Tanzi RE. Depletion of GGA3 stabilizes BACE and enhances β-secretase activity, Neuron, 54(5), 06/07/2007, 721-37, Read More
Kim M, Hersh LB, Leissring MA, Ingelsson M, Matsui T, Farris W, Lu A, Hyman BT, Selkoe DJ, Bertram L, Tanzi RE Decreased catalytic activity of the insulin degrading enzyme in chromosome 10-linked Alzheimer’s disease families., Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(11), 03/16/2017, 7825-32, Read More
Xie Z, Dong Y, Maeda U, Moir R, Xia W, Culley DJ, Crosby G, Tanzi RE. The Inhalation Anaesthetic Isoflurane Induces a Vicious Cycle of Apoptosis and Aβ Accumulation., J. Neurosci., 27, 2/7/2007, 1247-1254, Read More
McQueen MB, Bertram L, Lange C, Becker KD, Albert MS, Tanzi RE, Blacker D. Exploring Candidate Gene Associations with Neuropsychological Performance., Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 144(8), 02/1/2007, 987-91, Read More