Congratulations to Dr. Ann McKee who was just announced as the recipient of the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Research at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Chicago!
Dr. Michael Alosco and Colleagues, have been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Finally some good news about a clinical trial, and even one that Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center was a site for!
This study will comprehensively characterize the role of TBI and military service on a wide array of AD/ADRD outcomes, as well as identify factors that may modify these relationships.
Boston University professor Ann McKee has been named one of Time Magazine’s most influential pioneers of 2018.
She is donating her brain to science, so I visited the place where it will end up.
The 2018 Alzheimer’s Association was held on April 4th, 2018. The discussion of past, present and future research on Alzheimer’s Disease was discussed.
Dr. Andrew Budson, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center Education Core and associate chief of staff for education at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, wants to help people worry less about their memories—and understand more about what’s happening inside their brains and what they can do about it.
Mr. Gussis has been poked and prodded, tested on treadmills and with memory quizzes, served fatty meals followed by blood tests. His memory, cognition, and emotional regulation have been measured and his brain waves monitored. And he went through it all for science.
BU ADC Investigator, Dr. Karin Schon was Awarded an Alzheimer’s Association Grant on December 20th, 2017.