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Revolutionizing Lewy Body Dementia Research
The Karen Toffler Charitable Trust (KTCT) is supporting cutting-edge scientists like Dr. LaVoie to explore the uncharted territory of high-risk research. With their funding, Dr. LaVoie has uncovered an exciting new avenue of research that could revolutionize the way we approach Lewy Body Dementia. When Dr. LaVoie was awarded a Grant from the Karen Toffler…
Read MoreThe Future of Research: Powershifts and Implications
The global research and development (R&D) ecosystem is changing rapidly and dramatically. An arena once dominated, fueled, and funded by U.S. federal government organizations like the National Science Foundation, NIH, NASA, Office of Naval Research, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now being driven — and bankrolled — by investors from industry,…
Read MoreMBI Rising Stars: Adithya Gopinath
Toffler Scholar Adithya Gopinath’s research explores the connection between the brain and the peripheral immune system in people with Parkinson’s disease with the goal of developing a blood test to diagnose and monitor the disease and evaluate whether treatments are working. Learn more about his research in this article from University of Florida.
Read MoreDeep Learning Algorithm Outperforms Experts in Making Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
About 46.8 million people worldwide were living with dementia in 2015, and this number could double by 2035. Reliably differentiating between normal cognitive aging, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia requires significant clinical acumen from qualified specialists treating memory disorders, yet timely access to memory clinics is often limited for patients and families. Boston University Toffler…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Disease in Women
UCLA Toffler Scholar Dr. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda was part of the team that presented research that begins to give us insight into why Alzheimer’s disease affects more women than men and why the disease seems to progress more quickly in women’s brains. Learn more about her research in this article from NPR.
Read MoreDAT and TH expression marks human Parkinson’s disease in peripheral immune cells
Published Paper: Adithya Gopinath, et al. With support from The Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, University of Florida Toffler Scholar Adithya Gopinath was able to publish a paper in Nature about his research on Parkinson’s disease. Read the full paper to learn more about the exciting implications of their research in facilitating diagnosis and investigation of…
Read MoreThree UCLA Students Receive Toffler Scholar Awards
Cynthia Beard, Lara Yoon, and Catherine Psaras have earned the Toffler Scholar Award. These three students from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health were chosen through a competitive submission process led by the epidemiology department. Learn more about these three students and their research in this article from UCLA.
Read MoreUF neuroscientists discover biomarker with potential to aid Parkinson’s diagnosis
University of Florida neuroscientists have developed a new assay, or test, to detect minute amounts of a protein called tyrosine hydroxylase in blood immune cells of Parkinson’s disease patients, a key finding to aid in the development of a blood test to help diagnose and guide treatment for the neurodegenerative disorder. The findings were published…
Read MoreDriving Next-Generation Research Through Future-Focused Leadership
By Deborah Westphal The global research ecosystem is estimated to grow to 1.25 trillion dollars by 2025—and it is changing rapidly and dramatically. The hyper-connected web of business, government, academic, high-tech, and nonprofit entities is fueled by a diverse network of people dedicated to discovering new knowledge about ourselves and our world. Who, what, where,…
Read MoreUF neuroscience students lead creation of new mouse model for Alzheimer’s research
A research team led by University of Florida neuroscience graduate students has devised a new mouse model to study the protein tau, which can abnormally accumulate inside neurons and is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The development was reported May 12 in Communications Biology, a Nature Portfolio journal. The new rodent model, which…
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