Brain Banks - ALZFORUM This database lists brain banks around the world that collect central nervous system tissue from various neurodegenerative diseases and normal aging controls The banks share samples and attendant demographic and clinical information with qualified researchers worldwide Many brain banks operate as part of larger consortia that maintain virtual inventories of their combined holdings and offer
Banner Sun Health Research Institute - ALZFORUM This brain bank, biobank, and biospecimen bank derives its donors from the Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease (AZSAND), a longitudinal clinicopathological study of elderly volunteers living in Maricopa county and metropolitan Phoenix Studies focus on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson
Brain Banks for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Remain Underused Related disorders include DLB, Parkinson’s disease with dementia, multiple system atrophy, and progressive supranuclear palsy Banner recently joined the Parkinson’s Disease Biomarkers Program, a new portal that will enable researchers to submit requests for biomarker data and associated tissue requests to the Banner brain bank, Sieber said
A Finger-Prick Test for Alzheimer’s Disease? | ALZFORUM At AAIC 2024, held last month in Philadelphia, Nicholas Ashton, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Phoenix, reported that p-tau217 is one such protein Measuring this tau fragment in dried plasma spots identified people with Alzheimer’s disease about as well as did using venous blood, Ashton showed
TW001 - ALZFORUM Background TW001 is a new oral formulation of edaravone, an antioxidant drug marketed in the U S and Japan to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Epilepsy Society Brain and Tissue Bank (ESBTB) | ALZFORUM The ESBTB is the first of its kind in the UK It is dedicated to the study of epilepsy and Sudden Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), providing brain and other tissue samples to researchers for ethically approved epilepsy research Such research can help elucidate more about why some people develop epilepsy
Sydney Brain Bank | ALZFORUM The brain bank receives brain and spinal cord donations from individuals enrolled during life in one of its nine affiliated brain donor programs Donors must live in New South Wales and be older than 18 years The bank collects tissue from donors with sporadic and familial forms of a number of disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Lewy body dementia, Parkinson’s, frontotemporal dementia
Alzheimers Association International Conference 2020 . . . - ALZFORUM At this year’s virtual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, researchers from Novartis and the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute presented highly anticipated follow-up data from the massive Generation 1 and 2 Phase 3 trials These were halted when volunteers on the BACE inhibitor umibecestat began to develop subtle memory problems