Marina Ryan, 85, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on June 25, 2024, following a 15-year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1938, Marina was the daughter of the late Alberto and Maria (Ferrari) Beccarelli. She came to the United States in 1961 as a ...
July 10, 2024
Hildegarde “Hildy” Ellen Bradney (McGee, mdn.) of Belfast, Maine, passed quietly on December 16th, 2024, after a long and happy life that was sadly interrupted by Alzheimer’s disease. Hildy was born in Bethlehem, PA, in February, 1940 to Eulalie and Charles McGee. Raised in a large, Irish -American, Catholic family, she ...
December 17, 2024
Durkin, Kathleen M, of Rockville Centre, New York, passed on January 21st, 2025 in her 85th year. Beloved mother of James, Kathie, Michael, Richie, & Tisha. Cherished grandmother of Jennifer, Michelle, Angela, Stephanie, James, Jason, Alex, Jill, Nicholas, Jacquelin, Julianna, & Zachary. Great grandmother to Lindsey, Siles, Matthew, Alanna, Finn, Ella, ...
February 14, 2025
February 9, 2026
Marilyn Ann Melkerson (LaBrie), beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and cherished friend, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 13, 2026, at Encore Village in Schaumburg, Illinois. Born on April 5, 1935, in Turton, South Dakota, to Castle (Steffes) and Victor LaBrie, she graduated from Turton High School before going on to earn ...
March 25, 2026
National Public Radio’s Alan Chartock, from WAMC, hosted Dr. Sam Gandy on his show today. The hour long program focused on Gandy’s recent Cure Alzheimer’s Fund supported discovery of the link between Alzheimer’s and Type II Diabetes. Dr. Gandy, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium member is a Mount Sinai Professor ...
December 23, 2010
Professor Tsai is a leader in understanding the molecular pathophysiology and systems neuroscience of neurological disorders affecting cognition. Her work has brought new mechanisms for learning, memory and neurodegeneration to light and suggests new paths for combatting age-related memory loss. Landmark discoveries include pinpointing major genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease among ...
July 2, 2016
SAN DIEGO, July 16, 2013 – Confirming an enzyme in the serine hyrdrolase family as a therapeutic target to slow and potentially reverse the effects of Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease is the goal of new research announced today by Abide Therapeutics, in collaboration with researchers at the University of ...
July 15, 2013
Alzheimer’s disease and Type II diabetes long have been observed to have a clinical connection, with patients with diabetes more than twice as likely as those without the disease to develop Alzheimer’s. But the precise nature of this connection has been a mystery until recently. Over the last few years, ...
March 6, 2012
A meeting of the minds One of the most important, outstanding genetic questions about Alzheimer’s disease is the relationship between the APOE genotype and the risk associated with the disease. To better understand this topic and speed progress, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) sponsored a meeting in February 2010 to explore this ...
April 15, 2011
