The study, with the support of "la Caixa" Foundation, shows that the genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's in healthy people is determined by variables beyond the APOE gene.
The grant of 67,400 euros will allow Dr. Anastasi to develop her lines of research at the Fluid Biomarkers and Translational Neurology Research Group of the BBRC.
We talk about the diagnosis of the disease, and how research is progressing towards early detection, a topic we address live with Dr. Marc Suárez Calvet.
The "Interaction between subclinical atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease in middle age" project, led by the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center, is one of the 37 beneficiaries of the previous edition of La Marató.
The project, supported by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostic Accelerator and with the participation of the BBRC, will collect speech, clinical and biomarker data from more than 2600 participants.
The Neuroimaging Research Group of the center has presented a talk and two posters at the 16th edition of the congress dedicated to Alzheimer's clinical trials.
The Pasqual Maragall Researchers Program (PMRP) will distribute a total of 1.5 million euros between the three selected projects.
Postdoctoral researcher Wiesje Pelkmans explains the main results of the study.
This September 21, we call for more research and visibility to change the social consideration of the disease through the action "4lzh31m3r: the numbers to forget"