On Jun. 25, 2020, the Allen Institute announced a new a new $40.5 million collaborative research center in…
On Apr. 17, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced nearly $290 million of new funding for…
On Apr. 6, 2020, the first published data from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease (A4) study…
On Mar. 16, 2020, new insights into the architecture of the brain were revealed by scientists at the…
On Dec. 20, 2019, Dr. Pedro Rosa-Neto announced the discovery that the protein APOEꜫ4 plays a central role…
On Oct 1, 2019, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) announced it had awarded approximately $37 million over…
On Sept. 5, 2019, Penn Professor Virginia M.Y. Lee, PhD received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, in…
On Dec 3, 2018, a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) led research team announced they had identified…
On Aug. 24, 2018, Emory Universityﾒs Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center was renamed the Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center,…
On May 9, 2018, a new center dedicated to research on longevity and healthy aging was established at…
On Jan. 9, 2017, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) awarded $6 million for Canada’s national metabolomics laboratory,…
In 2016, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech was founded with a $1 billion…
On Oct. 1, 2015, The Kavli Foundation announced a $20 million award to establish the Institute for Fundamental…
On Jun. 26, 2015, The Keck School of Medicine announced it had established the University of Southern California…
On May 14, 2015, the University of Texas System Board of Regents approved the establishment of the Peter…
On Sept. 30, 2014, Canadian diamond pioneer Charles Fipke donated $9.1 million for Alzheimer’s research at the University…
On Aug. 4, 2014, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, California Institute of Technology, New York University School…
On Apr. 14, 2014, Stanford Medicine researchers announced a study that found a gene variant puts women at…
On Feb. 28, 2014, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH), a partnership between the University of…
On Oct. 28, 2013, Columbia University Medical Center announced publication of a Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals that identified…
On May 25, 2011, the Roskamp Institute and an international research consortium led by Trinity College Dublin, were…
On Jan. 31, 2011, the first international collaboration on Alzheimer’s disease genetics was launched. The International Genomics of…
In 2010, the Roskamp Foundation’s governing board announced that the Roskamp Institute had changed status from a private…
On Sept. 15, 2008, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) launched the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) to…
In 2007, Texas Biomed geneticists announced their discovery that a particular gene, VNN1, plays a major role in…
On Sept. 26, 2006, the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced the completion of the groundbreaking Allen Brain…
On Dec. 21, 2000, Dr. Peter St George-Hyslop developed a vaccine that prevented Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The…
In 2000, the Capillary electrophoresis DNA sequencer device was developed by Dr. Edward Yeung at Iowa State University….
In 1996, the first genetically engineered mouse model showing amyloid plaques and dysfunctional learning and memory found in…
In 1995, researchers led by Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop at the University of Toronto discovered and cloned two…