The Alzheimer’s Association has awarded a $118,673 grant to a researcher at Boston University School of Medicine to study how obesity affects brain aging and, potentially, a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. The researcher, Claudia Satizabal, has been associated for several years with the Framingham Heart Study, working with Dr.
A new research study has found that older, cognitively normal adults with elevated levels of cortical amyloid, the protein linked to Alzheimer’s, are much more likely to report feeling lonely and socially isolated regardless of their circumstances. These findings support the potential role of loneliness in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease.
AdAlta and Crossbeta Biosciences have entered into a commercialization agreement, granting Crossbeta with a license to three beta-amyloid oligomer (AßO)-specific shark antibodies, considered to have disease-specific potential for the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). These three shark antibodies were identified under a December 2013 agreement between…
BrightStar Care, a national at-home senior care franchise, has launched an Alzheimer’s awareness campaign — Memories and Connections — for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. The campaign is designed to equip family or care partners with information, educational tips, and activities to create meaningful connections with loved ones living with Alzheimer’s…
Roobirk and Antidote, two startup companies that work to empower people living with Alzheimer’s disease have entered a partnership with Galaxy, an online portal to initiatives that facilitate patient participation in Alzheimer’s research. More than 80% of clinical studies overall are delayed or closed because not enough patients meet enrollment requirements.
Two physicians — one at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the other with the University of Michigan — argue in a recent opinion piece that the National Alzheimer Project Act (NAPA), as it now stands, has resulted in potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease being tested without a…
Using laser technology, researchers have found that peptides related to Alzheimer’s Disease move at dangerous speeds prior to clumping or forming the plaques that characterize the disease. Moreover, the scientists also identified strategies to keep the blocks that form the proteins moving at safe speeds. The study, “Monomer Dynamics…
A recent research study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland has found that psychotropic drug use is more common than previously thought among Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients who were diagnosed at 90 years old or older, in comparison to those who were diagnosed at younger age. The…
Recombinetics has just announced that the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the company with a $358,338 Phase 1 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant to create a genetically accurate swine model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recombinetics is a biotech…
Larry Altstiel, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of vTv Therapeutics, will speak today on the panel “Novel Approaches to Alzheimer’s Disease,” during the Neuro Advance Boston conference hosted by Harvard Medical School. Altstiel will detail the mechanisms of action of azeliragon, vTv Therapeutics’ investigative treatment for mild Alzheimer’s disease…
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