David Shenk and Stefanie Nelson have collaborated to launch The Moving Memory Project, a new festival dedicated to memory and forgetting with a special focus on Alzheimer’s. The January 2019 event featured a dance piece choreographed by Stefanie called MY NAME IS… which was inspired by her experiences watching family members ...
February 8, 2019
2019 This project recently established a more accurate and efficient model to identify fluorescent images generated by treating the Alzheimer’s in a Dish model with compounds that can clear accumulated phosphorylated tau. Meanwhile, 29 new candidate compounds recently going through clinical trials for various diseases were generated by in silico prediction ...
August 27, 2018
The award co-sponsored by the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and the Alzheimer’s Association honors the legacies of two pioneering Alzheimer researchers, George G. Glenner and Leon J. Thal. The two $100,000 grants will be made to early career researchers to inspire and enable innovative research which leads to effective therapies for ...
September 25, 2008
Taking advantage of recent research progress, we propose to carry out a compound screen to find potential drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The screen will use a revolutionary 3-D stem cell model, recently developed by Drs. Rudy Tanzi and Doo Yeon Kim at Massachusetts General Hospital, which for the ...
September 30, 2015
In early April, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund sponsored the “Modeling Neurodegenerative Disease in Neuron Culture Systems” panel at the Alzheimer’s Disease/Parkinson’s Disease (AD/PD) Congress in Vienna, Austria. More than 1,000 scientists attended the panel, which featured researchers Doo Yeon Kim, Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital, Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D., of Massachusetts Institute of ...
April 23, 2017
Annual Awards Support “Tomorrow’s Leaders in Alzheimer’s Disease Research;” Honor Legacies of Drs. George Glenner and Leon Thal April 9, 2008 – A coalition of leading Alzheimer’s disease organizations today announced the first three recipients of “Tomorrow’s Leaders in Alzheimer’s Disease Research” prizes; a new award mechanism to recognize outstanding young scientists ...
April 15, 2009
The Alzheimer’s Association, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, and the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute award the Tomorrow’s Leader in Alzheimer’s Disease Research prize, honoring the legacies of two pioneering Alzheimer researchers – George G. Glenner, M.D., and Leon J. Thal, M.D. The award intends to recognize the work of promising M.D. or ...
November 22, 2007
In an effort to support the next generation of leading Alzheimer’s researchers, the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has joined with the Alzheimer’s Association and the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute to create and fund a new “genius grant” for young Alzheimer’s researchers. The new prize called Tomorrow’s Leaders in Alzheimer’s Disease Research honors ...
February 19, 2007
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