Research News
Learn about an exciting citizen science project receiving support from the BrightFocus Alzheimer’s Disease Research program; the first crowd-sourced effort to gather data to help end Alzheimer’s disease.
BrightFocus Foundation today lauded a new, innovative citizen science project, EyesOnALZ, which recently launched an online game - Stall Catchers - to engage the public in helping researchers analyze Alzheimer’s data in the hopes of more quickly discovering ways to prevent and treat the disease.
Time magazine recently described a “cocktail” approach to fighting Alzheimer’s. BrightFocus-funded research supports this effort, which takes us closer to a cure.
Stacy Pagos Haller, BrightFocus Foundation's President and CEO, urges the Food and Drug Administration to strongly support expanded use of neurodiagnostic tools to assess cognitive function.
Learn about BrightFocus-funded presentations at the 2015 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
Research by BrightFocus grantee Matthew Campbell, PhD, of Trinity College Dublin, represents a potential new way to help clear the brain of a build-up of the toxic amyloid beta (Aβ) that leads to Alzheimer’s.
