UW-Madison Medical School gets Alzheimer's grant

Chicago Tribune

MADISON, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has been awarded a grant of $6.9 million to create an Alzheimer's disease research center.

The five-year grant comes from the National Institute on Aging, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. The goal is to develop ways of detecting the disease at the earliest possible stage and find treatments that can slow or stop its progression.

Gov. Jim Doyle said the new center "will build on the innovative approaches by the Wisconsin Alzheimer's disease research team."

Among its innovations, the UW-Madison Alzheimer's Institute has developed a Wisconsin registry of more than 1,300 middle-aged, asymptomatic children of Alzheimer's patients for research into such things as....read the whole story

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