October 23, 2020
November 19, 2025
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
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
Dr. Elgendy is an Associate Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. working with Dr. Alan Katritzky at the University of Florida. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Elgendy pursued postdoctoral research at Scripps Research Institute. At the Elgendy lab, their primary objective is to ...
January 16, 2024
Ronald Peter Bianchini, Sr., age 88, of Somerset, NJ, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, surrounded by his most beloved family members, including his devoted wife of 62 years, Elaine Bianchini (Santoro). On February 5, 1936, Ronald was born in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, on the ...
February 8, 2024
February 9, 2022
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
Co-chaired by three members of CAF’s Research Consortium—Drs. David Holtzman, Sam Sisodia and Rudy Tanzi—participants included all the other members of the Research Consortium (except Virginia Lee, who had a prior commitment) and several invited guests whose records of research include valuable insights into this relationship. The guests were Michael ...
April 21, 2010
Potential for New Therapies to Treat both Diseases The discovery of a molecular mechanism linking Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes could lead to exciting new drugs to treat both devastating diseases, according to new research published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers found that the gene for ...
September 30, 2010
