Amazing, Isn’t it? Researchers Develop Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease

by Gabriela Inderviews | Oct 25, 2020 | Hope Center, Hope Happens News

Your contributions to Hope Happens have a lasting impact, and great news keeps coming from the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders. This year, researchers at the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders lead by Dr. Randell Bateman developed a blood test for...

Holtzman Awarded Watanabe Prize

by Gabriela Inderviews | Oct 15, 2019 | Hope Center, Hope Happens News, Research and Breakthroughs

David Holtzman, MD, the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and head of the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research from the Indiana Clinical and...

New Video Highlights Hope Center Partnership

by Wendy Chromoga | Jul 12, 2018 | Hope Center, Hope Happens News, Research and Breakthroughs

Hope Happens has unveiled a new video that describes its unique collaboration with the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders. This short (4:25) video offers a glimpse inside the Hope Center laboratories and introduces you to Hope Center scientists and the important...

Researchers Pursue Promising Theory to Prevent Alzheimer’s

by Wendy Chromoga | Feb 3, 2018 | Hope Center, Hope Happens News, Research and Breakthroughs

Scientists know the difference between a healthy brain and one with Alzheimer’s Disease. The Alzheimer’s brain has accumulated a protein called amyloid-beta (pictured here) that kills the neurons around it. So if you can prevent the accumulation of amyloid-beta,...

Hope Center Team Reverses Alzheimer’s-related Damage in Mice and Monkeys

by Wendy Chromoga | Jan 27, 2017 | Hope Center, Research and Breakthroughs

Breakthrough Could Lead to Treatments for Many Neurological Disorders… Hope Center researchers have identified a molecule that could prevent or even reverse the buildup of a protein that causes neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s. The tau protein...

Researchers’ Apply Innovative Technique to Investigate Alzheimer’s

by Wendy Chromoga | Dec 11, 2016 | Hope Center, Research and Breakthroughs

Hope Center researchers have developed an innovative technique to investigate the buildup of a protein in patients with Alzheimer’s. This research could lead to treatment of Alzheimer’s and related diseases. Researchers from Washington University and the...