Cure Alzheimer's Fund: Targeting Breakthrough Research

Cure Alzheimer's Fund proposes a National Research Strategy to accelerate progress toward a cure. The proposal builds on our own Research Roadmap, and  provides a broader path to intervention by 2020. We have shared this draft with selected members of Congress and their staffs, and with the staff of the Alzheimer's Study Group , a bipartisan effort co-chaired by Newt Gingrich and former Senator Bob Kerrey, and featuring others including Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Harold Varmus and our own Henry McCance.

Dr. Sisodia of the University of Chicago and Dr. Gabe of the University of California at Irvine have been awarded the prestigious distinction of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Alzheimer's Charity Finds Success in Stuart, FL. A recent TC Palm article features the breakthrough work of the Alzheimer's Genome Project and describes the origin of Cure Alzheimer's Fund. By BY JAN LINDSEY Correspondent Wednesday, December 24, 2008 STUART — Philanthropist Phyllis Rappaport, a Stuart resident, knows how to pick 'em.

Cure Alzheimer's Fund's Alzheimer's Genome Project was ranked as one of 2008's major medical discoveries by TIME/CNN.Read the article.

Boston Globe story focuses on Cure Alzheimer's Fund study that shows mice given an anesthetic widely used in surgery on people suffered changes to their brains similar to the damage found in Alzheimer's disease. The results by researchers from Dr. Rudy Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital was published  in the online Annals of Neurology.

Cure Alzheimer's Fund's Dr. Sam Gandy and Dr. Rudy Tanzi discuss the importance and impact of the promising progress on the latest generation of Alzheimer's drug treatments in a CNN Money story.

Dr. Rudy Tanzi and his colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified about 70 genes containing variants that either confer risk, or protect against, Alzheimer's disease in  the Alzheimer's Genome Project™ (AGP).

An article in the July 31st Economist on latest advances in Alzheimer's research being presented at the International Azheimer's Disease Conference in Chicago features the Cure Alzheimer's Fund ground breaking Alzheimer's Genome (AGP) project to map all the genes for the disease.

Cure Alzheimer's Fund's Dr. Rudy Tanzi and Dr. Sam Gandy were featured in an NBC Nightly News story on the latest Alzheimer's drug treatments and research from the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease.

No, Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of the aging process. All parts of our bodies change as we age and this includes the brain. As people get older, they notice slowed thinking and changes in memory.