NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fisher Center for Alzheimer's
Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, will make available both Nobel
Laureate Dr. Paul Greengard and Dr. William Netzer for interviews. Both Dr.
Greengard and Dr. Netzer reside in New York, N.Y. and are considered experts
in the field of Alzheimer's disease research.
Dr. Paul Greengard directs the global research team comprised of well over
60 scientists and researchers collaborating across the United States and in 17
foreign nations. As head of the research center at Rockefeller University,
Dr. Paul Greengard, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000 for his research in
neurological brain cell communication, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, is
the world's leading expert on how brain cells communicate with each other.
Dr. Greengard and his team made the recent breakthrough discovery that the FDA
approved drug Gleevec, currently used to treat certain types of cancer, could
inhibit the build up of beta amlyoid (the protein believed to be the root
cause of Alzheimer's). This application of Gleevec could inhibit the onset of
Alzheimer's disease by many years.
As part of Dr. Greengard's team, Dr. William J. Netzer was the lead author
on the recent discovery that appeared in the October edition of the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Prior to receiving his Ph.D.
from Cornell University in 1997 in the field of protein folding, Dr. Netzer
was a caregiver for his mother who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
The Foundation's website, http://www.alzinfo.org , is bringing hope and
understanding to those touched by Alzheimer's disease. On the site, users can
learn about the disease, find out what progress is being made in the search
for a cure, and where to go for help in their neighborhood. Visitors to
alzinfo.org can also ask questions of experts in the aging field and chat with
others in the alzinfo community. Thousands of people a day are benefiting
from the information, resources and community offered by the Alzheimer's
Research Foundation.
SOURCE Alzheimer's Research Foundation, Fisher Center
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