Alzheimer’s research

Fort Worth’s Rainwater Charitable Foundation Awards $600K to 2 Neurodegenerative Disease Researchers

by | Feb 6, 2025
The foundation's annual Rainwater Prizes honor researchers worldwide who are advancing discoveries for diseases caused by tau protein accumulations in the brain. This year's winners include a professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and an Early-Career Scientist honoree at Brown University.
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This HSC Professor is Working To Fundamentally Change the Way Alzheimer’s Disease is Diagnosed and Treated
by | Mar 16, 2021
Contracting Alzheimer's is the No. 1 fear of people over 65, says Sid O'Bryant, who wants to give primary physicians the ability to test for Alzheimer's with a blood test. That can offer peace of mind to many and earlier help for those who need it.

His groundbreaking research, which has revealed significant differences in biomarkers for the disease, could make the treatment of Alzheimer's more like that for cancer—a multi-dimensional "precision" approach.
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HSC Invests $7M to Research Why African Americans Are at Greater Risk of Alzheimer’s
by | Dec 9, 2020
The University of North Texas Health Science Center is recruiting 1,000 African Americans from North Texas to participate in its HABLE study for Alzheimer’s research, which tends to focus solely on non-Latino whites.
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