Research Brief: Expanded Registry to Grow DIAN Population
Since the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) was formed in the U.S., Australia, and the UK in 2008, word has spread among researchers and families in other countries...
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Miami: When Does Amyloid Deposition Start in Familial Alzheimer’s?
Three speakers presented data on brain amyloid deposition in presymptomatic carriers of deterministic AD mutations starting as early as their young twenties...
Late- and Early Onset AD—Not So Distant at Genetic Level
Mutations in amyloid precursor protein and presenilin can give rise to a late-onset, inherited version of Alzheimer’s disease...
Reeling In Biomarker Data in Young Carriers, API Rocks Staging Boat
Scientists driving the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative have been reporting at scientific conferences the first emerging biomarker findings from their human volunteers...
DIAN Forms Pharma Consortium, Submits Treatment Trial Grant
In their quest to offer treatment trials to families with autosomal-dominant AD, the scientists driving the DIAN have cleared the next hurdles...
Australia Report: The Way Forward—Pre-symptomatic Trials
Over the past five years, the field at large has reached strong consensus that clinical trials should treat people earlier...
News Flash: Colombian Families Come to Phoenix for Amyloid PET
All those who follow the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative may want to check out a recent New York Times article...
Scientists and Regulators Discuss Preclinical AD Trials
A collective push is for therapeutic trials to start within the next two years in three different types of patients...
Detecting Familial AD Ever Earlier: Subtle Memory Signs 15 Years Before
Recent findings have strengthened the scientific underpinning of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative...
A Neurologist’s Devotion Puts Familial AD Research Onto New Plane
What has the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative accomplished this past year?...
Colombians Come to Fore in Alzheimer’s Research, Mass Media
If you follow Alzheimer’s disease research at all, chances are you have heard of the families in the South American nation of Colombia...
Mark Your Calendars: Powerful CNN Documentary on Alzheimer’s
Invite your friends over, gather loved ones, serve some munchies, and settle in for a night of TV well worth watching...
London: Families Talk About Treatment Trials
Autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease family representatives spoke or showed videos about treatment trials...
London: What, No Argument? Speakers Agree on Trials for Familial AD
Part 2 of Alzforum’s coverage continues with what scientists from inside and outside DIAN said about the prospect of such pre-symptomatic trials...
London: Europe-U.S. Regulators Mull Prevention Trial in Familial AD
The charge of this meeting was to begin a dialogue toward the shared goal of offering therapeutic treatment and prevention trials to families with autosomal-dominant AD...
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