Virginia Tech researchers developing new strategy to thwart Alzheimer's

(Virginia Tech) With a new, five-year, $2.8 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to Harald Sontheimer, a glial neurobiologist at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, scientists are probing changes caused by aging in the circulatory system in the normal brain and Alzheimer's disease brain. The hope is they will discover something completely unsuspected -- a protein or a signaling pathway that no one had thought about -- that could then be potentially targeted to develop a therapy for Alzheimer's disease
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news