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Newswise — WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Feb. 7, 2020 – Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have received a five-year grant worth approximately $2.53 million from the National Institute on Aging to evaluate whether a novel brain-imaging technique can identify Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.
Using an animal model, the researchers will employ a tracer for positron emission tomography (PET scanning) to image microtubules – microscopic tubes that help define the structure and movement of cells – in the brain.
“Microtubules are message carriers within neurons that are very tightly bundled in a healthy brain,” said the project’s lead investigator, Kiran Solingapuram Sai, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology at Wake…
