Sentences with phrase «neurodegenerative disease research»

Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, senior investigator and director of the Taube - Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at Gladstone Institutes, is part of this Huntington's disease research program.

«Huntington's — an inherited and fatal disorder that leads to problems with muscle coordination, cognition and personality — is characterized by the toxic buildup of a mutant form of the huntingtin protein in the brain,» explained Dr. Finkbeiner, who directs the Taube - Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at Gladstone.

It is the largest and most productive clinically - focused HD research group in the UK, and is at the forefront of neurodegenerative disease research and has real potential to transform people's lives.»

«This is potentially an important finding not only for ALS research but for neurodegenerative disease research in general, because the formation of fibril aggregates is so common in these diseases,» said senior author Nikolay Dokholyan, PhD, the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC - Chapel Hill.

According to Paul Coleman, an Alzheimer's researcher at the ASU - Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC), one of the greatest difficulties plaguing efforts to find effective treatments for Alzheimer's is the enormous lag between the disease's inception and the appearance of clinical symptoms.

McLaughlin Research Institute (MRI) seeks an innovative scientist at the Professor level with an established program in neurodegenerative disease research who can take advantage of the Institute's strengths in mouse genetics and animal models.

In the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease Research Review we spotlight the groundbreaking work of scientists researching Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases.

He lined up a 3 - year postdoc at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital and a Tosteson fellowship from the Massachusetts Biomedical Research Corp. «My goal was to go and learn other aspects, other techniques, other tools so I could get a broader view» of neurodegenerative disease research.

According to Dale Bredesen, MD, a professor at the Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at UCLA, patients who due to Alzheimer's had had to discontinue work were able to return to work and those struggling at their jobs were able to improve their performance.

Earlier studies by senior author Virginia M.Y. Lee, PhD, and her colleagues at Penn's Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) had demonstrated a novel pathology of PD in which misfolded α - syn fibrils initiate and propagate Lewy bodies via cell - to - cell transmission.

8Taube / Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Roddenberry Stem Cell Program, San Francisco, California, USA.

Lee, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, published their findings this week in Nature Neuroscience.

The EU Joint Programme — Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) is the largest global research initiative aimed at tackling the challenge of neurodegenerative diseases.

«The microscope lets us examine cells on an individual basis, much as we would human patients,» said Finkbeiner, director of the Taube / Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

Researchers Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine; Frank Longo, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at Stanford School of Medicine; and Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institutes» Taube - Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, will collaborate with clinical efforts at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, under the direction of Bruce Miller, MD, PhD.

EU Joint Programme — Neurodegenerative Disease Research 43 pp.

In 2009, Gladstone joined forces with Taube Philanthropies and the Koret Foundation to found the Taube / Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Gladstone Institute for Neurological Disease and Director of the Taube / Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

The team was led by senior author Virginia M. - Y Lee, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) and professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and first author Kelvin C. Luk, PhD, research assistant professor in the CNDR.

In an effort to stem the rapidly rising tide of Alzheimer's disease, the conventional medical paradigm has poured billions of dollars into funding for neurodegenerative disease research.

A 2016 study by researchers from the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing and the UCLA Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, showed that memory loss in Alzheimer's patients can be reversed, and improvement sustained, using a complex, 36 - point therapeutic personalized program that involves comprehensive changes in diet, brain stimulation, exercise, optimization of sleep, specific pharmaceuticals and vitamins, and multiple additional steps that affect brain chemistry.