Investor Stemcell

LOS ANGELES (Feb. 20, 2012) – A Cedars-Sinai research scientist has been awarded two national grants totaling more than $2.5 million, including a prestigious Research Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to study potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Terrence Town, PhD, is studying drugs that potentially could disrupt the formation and accumulation of sticky amyloid plaques that build up in the brain and are widely considered a root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, a chronic and fatal condition that impairs memory and cognition. In the disease’s final stages, patients require round-the-clock care. Amyloid is an abnormal protein usually produced in the bone marrow that can be deposited in any tissue or organ.  An unhealthy buildup of the protein is believed to lead to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. “Alzheimer’s has the potential to bankrupt this country,” said  Town, PhD, the studies’ principal investigator and research scientist in the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative...