2023 Update: SAN's contributions to to the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center10/6/2023 In 2016, Stop Alzheimer’s Now contributed $100,000 to the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center, establishing the Stop Alzheimer’s Now Research Fund. The donation was made to support a ketogenic diet study conducted by Dr. Russell Swerdlow and his team, including Scott Koppel, M.D., Ph.D., as they studied how ketone body-based interventions affect the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and the decisions of physicians and patients regarding treatment options. We recently received an update from Dr. Swerdlow on how SAN's donation was used toward research, as well as recent work from his lab as they continue to search for an Alzheimer's cure. Your support played an outsize role in some of my recent successes. It really allowed me to play jazz with my research, and to take some chances. In particular, SAN dollars were used to support work done by a trainee, graduate student now turned MD PhD, named Scott Koppel. Stop Alzheimer’s Now support allowed us to generate a unique transgenic mouse, which unfortunately did not turn out to have a detectable phenotype. While that was disappointing to us, this is not an uncommon outcome of such experiments and we could not have made progress on this, and addressed the question we needed to answer, without the contribution. Your support did help make possible additional thesis work by Dr. Koppel, and the Foundation is listed as a key sponsor of a publication I am very proud of, and which I think is a very important paper.” The full publication on this study can be found here: A Ketogenic Diet Differentially Affects Neuron and Astrocyte Transcription. Thank you to Dr. Swerdlow and the KU Alzheimer's Research Disease Center for their dedication and groundbreaking research toward finding a cure for Alzheimer's. For a summary of recent work from Dr. Swerdlow's lab, click here.
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