What was the focus of your research? It was on the copper dependent increase in neurodegeneration due to amyloid beta protein and the metabolic growth rate decrease due to copper. So basically, I’m expressing a protein in the eye of a fly, and then I’m either giving them copper or not giving them copper and...
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New Alzheimer’s drug promises to slow cognitive decline
The efficacy of a new Alzheimer’s drug is under scrutiny after it was granted accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration this month. Leqembi, a treatment developed by Japanese biotech company Eisai and American biotech Biogen, has demonstrated more success in trial studies than any Alzheimer’s drug before. A recent study published in the...
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Walking to End Alzheimer’s: Honoring my grandmother
I had been looking forward to fall break since this past June when I joined the Rochester Walk to End Alzheimer’s committee. Meeting once every month, as a member of the walk committee, I tabled for Alzheimer’s Association at different events, hung posters and handed out pamphlets in neighboring towns, spoke about my story with...