Most current drug therapy development is based on research of genes that were discovered in 1987 and are responsible for early onset Alzheimer's disease, which accounts for only 5-10% of the total Alzheimer's population.
 
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Research Consortium

Researchers and physicians are invited to serve voluntarily to provide and update a "roadmap for research" for the most effective and efficient route to slowing, stopping and/or reversing Alzheimer's disease.



Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D.
Photo of Rudy Tanzi, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience), Harvard Medical School.
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Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph.D.
Photo of Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph.D.Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Sinai Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Chair, National Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer’s Association.
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Charles Glabe, Ph.D.
Charles Glabe, PhDUniversity of California at Irvine
Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences.
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David Michael Holtzman, M.D.
Photo of David Michael Holtzman, MDWashington University, St. Louis
The Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology and head of the Department of Neurology; Charlotte and Paul Hagemann Professor of Neurology and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology; the Associate Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; a member of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders.
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M. Ilyas Kamboh, Ph.D.
Photo of M. Ilyas Kamboh, Ph.D.University of Pittsburgh
Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health.
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Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D. M.B.A.
Photo of Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD MBA University of Pennsylvania
The John H. Ware III Professor in Alzheimer's Research, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease.
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John C. Mazziotta, M.D., Ph.D.
John C. Mazziotta, M.D., Ph.DUCLA School of Medicine
Chair, Department of Neurology; Directors of the UCLA Brain Mapping Center; Associate Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute; Frances Stark Chair of Neurology; Pierson-Lovelace Investigator; Professor of Neurology, Radiological Sciences and Pharmacology, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center.
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Sangram S. Sisodia, Ph.D.
Photo of Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD University of Chicago
Thomas A. Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of Neurosciences.
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