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BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds innovative, early-stage research on Alzheimer’s disease and the vision diseases of glaucoma and macular degeneration, today announced grant award offers totaling more than $7.2 million to 53 scientists in 16 states and four foreign countries.
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and BrightFocus Foundation announced a funding collaboration that will support a Phase I human clinical trial to evaluate the cancer drug bexarotene as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Through this partnership, the organizations are working to address a gap in funding that exists for these types of early stage studies.
Families who have lived with Alzheimer’s disease share their personal stories and proclaim “Now Is the Moment” to end this life-shattering disease, in a moving set of public service announcements (PSAs).
BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research worldwide to save sight and mind, released the results of a survey of more than 170 leading biomedical scientists that explores the most significant barriers to progress in ending brain and eye diseases
The American Health Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds ground-breaking, early-stage research on Alzheimer's disease, today announced it has awarded 22 new research grants, totaling more than $3.6 million, to scientists on the cutting edge of discoveries about the devastating disease.
The American Health Assistance Foundation applauds scientists who received the prestigious MetLife Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease, an honor that recognizes outstanding researchers in the field and provides grants to further their work.
“In the last eight days, scientists have delivered a powerful one-two punch in the fight to defeat Alzheimer's disease,” said Stacy Pagos Haller, President and CEO of the American Health Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit that identifies and funds exceptionally high-impact research worldwide through its Alzheimer's Disease Research program.
The American Health Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports research and public information through its Alzheimer's Disease Research program, welcomes today's announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the Obama Administration will dedicate more resources, in 2012 and beyond, to the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
Two different research groups have independently made the same important discoveries on how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain, according to a February 2 New York Times story.
A scientific research bill announced on Capitol Hill today represents a major step forward in the national goal to end Alzheimer's disease, says the American Health Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose Alzheimer's Disease Research program funds research worldwide.