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Alzheimer Article Features Hope Center Scientists

An article about  research to find cures for Alzheimer's disease appeared in the winter 2007 issue of Washington University in St. Louis. Although they were not identified as such, the articled featured a number of Hope Center scientists who are playing leading roles in the search for cures, including Drs. Randall Bateman, John R. Cirrito, Alison Goate, David Holtzman, Eugene M. Johnson, Jeffrey Milbrandt and Ann M. Fagan Niven. Goate and Holtzman, who serves on the Hope Happens Board of Directors, have won the two major awards in Alzheimer's research: the MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research and the Potamkin Prize from the American Academy of Neurology. They, along with Johnson, also serve on the Hope Center Executive Committee along with other scientists and representatives of Hope Happens.

A survey conducted by the MetLife Foundation in 2006 found that Alzheimer's disease is the most frightening health problem to adults 55 and older. It is often called "the mind's thief" because it cruelly steals language, memory and even personality before extinguishing life itself. Each day 961 people learn they will lose their identities to Alzheimer's. It is one of the 11 nerve-killing disorders that Hope Center Scientists are seeing to cure. 
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