Join us for our 2nd annual webinar on June 22. We will be hosting Dr. Rudy Tanzi, who will present his latest findings in the field of Alzheimer’s disease genetic research. The presentation will include a brief history of Alzheimer’s disease research, an explanation of the Alzheimer’s Genome Project, as ...
July 15, 2010
For the first time, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) joined forces to produce a live-streamed webinar titled “Dialogue with the National Institutes of Health on Alzheimer’s Disease,” which aired on Dec. 5, 2016, from NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. The webinar featured Dr. Richard J. ...
November 29, 2016
Learn more about the connection between Alzheimer’s disease and the gut microbiome with Sam Sisodia, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago. Dr. Sisodia’s work in mouse models of Alzheimer’s indicates that changes in the makeup of the gut microbiome – the populations of various bacteria in the digestive tract – ...
August 7, 2017
Find out about the exciting progress being made with gamma secretase modulators, a potential drug therapy for Alzheimer’s, in this one-hour webinar. Steven Wagner, Ph.D., principal investigator at UC San Diego’s Department of Neuroscience, talks to David Shenk, senior adviser, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, about how the modulators work and what’s ...
September 16, 2016
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund presented a webinar, Two Sides of Abeta for the Layperson, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. The presentation, moderated by David Shenk, author of the national bestseller The Forgetting, Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic, featured Dr. Rudy Tanzi and Dr. Rob Moir. These Alzheimer’s experts looked at Abeta and ...
January 25, 2012
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund will host Dr. David Holtzman for a live webinar on Thursday, May 27 at 5:30 PM. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease: A Groundbreaking New Blood Test is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Dr. Holtzman is a co-inventor of a new blood test, PrecivityAD, designed to assist ...
May 20, 2021
Despite the growing appreciation neuroscientists now have for the clear relationship that exists between the brain and the immune system, most studies have focused their attention on microglia—the brain’s primary innate immune cells. However, Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has kept his ...
December 7, 2021
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 1 p.m. EST, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund hosted a free interactive Alzstream™ webinar about how we are partnering with the U.S. government on Alzheimer’s research. This partnership is an indication of the rising awareness and concern for the Alzheimer’s epidemic. Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has worked with government ...
December 9, 2014
In honor of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund will host Dr. Erik Musiek for a live webinar on Tuesday, Nov. 30, on the topic of SLEEP! AND ITS IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE HEALTH OF OUR BRAINS. The webinar is free and open to the public. Registration is required. In his ...
November 9, 2021
Since 2013, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has been supporting research by the distinguished neuroscientist and Down syndrome (DS) expert William Mobley, M.D., Ph.D., whose lab is based at the University of California, San Diego. Mobley is part of a team working to exploit a hypothesis that inhibiting a protein called monoacylglycerol ...
September 3, 2014
