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
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
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
October 20, 2021
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
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
Leesa Troy Crnogorac made her transition on October 7, 2014. Leesa grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. Having been trained as a singer in opera, oratorio, and concertizing, she performed throughout the Midwest. Leesa went to New York ...
January 10, 2015
Ann Fluegel, 88, died on February 10. Ann was born in 1930 in Brooklyn. After high school, she worked as a bookkeeper in Manhattan. She married James Fluegel in 1960 and raised four boys. The family moved to East Brunswick, NJ in 1973 where she lived the remainder of her ...
February 13, 2019
Miriam (“Mim”) Dean Heard Stoddard Range was born on April 25, 1935 in Leland, Mississippi. She graduated from Leland High School, received a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern at Memphis (“Rhodes”), and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Memphis State University. She was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, and ...
November 19, 2019
Gladys Giarratano (1929 – 2021) Gladys Giarratano of Devon, PA, loving and devoted mother and friend to all whose lives she touched, passed away in her sleep after a brief battle with pneumonia on Sunday, March 28, 2021 at Floral Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Center in Yardley, PA. She was 91 years ...
April 1, 2021
