Newswise — Boston, Mass. — Joseph F. Arboleda-Velásquez, MD, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and assistant scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear who studies small vessel disease in the brain and the eye, has been awarded a five-year, $4 Million gift from Good Ventures to spur his lab’s groundbreaking work into Alzheimer’s disease genetic resistance.
This transformational gift will enable Dr. Arboleda-Velásquez to build upon the recent discovery of a genetic mutation that protected a woman who had a high familial risk for the condition and amyloid plaque deposits in her brain against early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
The gift funds will support two research projects that aim to:
- Examine the function of a protective genetic variant described in a woman with high familial risk for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, but who has…
