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Rainwater Charitable Foundation
Dr. Melissa Murray with a digitally printed “brain art” of her late grandmother [Photo Courtesy Dr. Melissa Murray]
Fort Worth’s Rainwater Charitable Foundation Announces 2026 Rainwater Prize Winners
by Sandra Engelland | Feb 5, 2026
The Rainwater Prize honors scientific contributions to the field of neurodegenerative research that target diseases associated with the accumulation of tau protein in the brain, with the goal of translating discoveries into meaningful therapeutic and diagnostic innovations.
by Lance Murray |
Aug 13, 2025
The grants are part of the Tauopathy Challenge Workshop, a funding program that convenes interdisciplinary experts around a single topic: addressing unmet needs in primary tauopathies related to several neurodegenerative diseases.
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Fort Worth’s Rainwater Charitable Foundation Awards $600K to 2 Neurodegenerative Disease Researchers
by David Seeley |
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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by Lance Murray |
Jul 10, 2024
The grants came out of a workshop for researchers with a focus on Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Frontotemporal Dementias (FTDs), part of a class of debilitating neurodegenerative diseases that may shorten a person's lifespan, and for which no current treatments exist.
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Mural painted by Texas artist Jon McKenzie for United Way of Tarrant County Get United Campaign [Photo: UWTC]
United Way of Tarrant County Launches ‘Get United’ Campaign with 100th Birthday Party at Globe Life Field
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Nov 17, 2022
United Way of Tarrant County celebrated its 100th birthday with a community event Thursday at Globe Life Field in Arlington, featuring a long list of dignitaries and guests. "Get United Day" launched a new campaign targeting four key areas of need in Tarrant County.
The Get United campaign aims "to engage the public, businesses, and philanthropists in achieving a more prosperous and equitable future in Tarrant County."
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by Michaela Markels |
Feb 16, 2021
The late Fort Worth billionaire’s foundation is making new strides in neurodegenerative brain disease research with its announcement of a partnership with CurePSP. Together they aim to facilitate researcher access to brain tissue and data and help advance the world towards treatments of these currently deadly diseases.
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