A new voter survey sponsored by the ACT-AD Coalition (Accelerate Cure/Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease) finds that three-quarters of Americans nationwide and across party lines say it is personally important to them to find a cure or to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, while a similar proportion of the national electorate say they look to Congress to make […]
Collins Shares Stage with Rock Star Perry
NIH director Dr. Francis Collins (above, l) performed recently to raise science’s profile. He shared the stage with (above, r) Dr. Rudy Tanzi of Harvard (l) and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. NIH’ers can now say, “My boss is a rock star.” That’s because NIH director Dr. Francis Collins jammed with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry for the […]
Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., Named a Scientific Hero and "Rock Star of Science" by Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® and GQ Magazine
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Nov. 17, 2010) – Autism Speaks, the nation’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, is pleased to announce that Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., its chief science officer, has been named a “Rock Star of Science” by Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® and GQ Magazine who have joined forces, along with the Entertainment Industry Foundation/SU2C, […]
Scientists and musicians: separated at birth?
Chris Mooney, contributor Thanks to his participation in the 2010 rock stars of science photo shoot that just appeared in the December 2010 “Men of the Year” issue of GQ, geneticist Emil Kakkis now has a pretty freakin’ cool guitar. In a spread that pairs up 19 biomedical scientists – including Nobel laureates Elizabeth Blackburn […]
Welcome Back Awards Recognize Outstanding Contributions in the Fight Against Depression
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Five individuals will be recognized for outstanding achievements in the fight against depression at the 13th annual Welcome Back Awards ceremony on February 29 in Washington, D.C. Since 1998, the Welcome Back Awards have helped to promote awareness that depression — an all too often misunderstood illness — is real, […]
Lilly Introduces Global ‘Innovation Starts Here’ Initiative to Foster Innovation and Quality Science
BRUSSELS, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) today announced the launch of its global Innovation Starts Here initiative which supports Lilly’s commitment to speeding the delivery of innovative new medicines to patients around the world. Two key components of this initiative include the Lilly Research Awards Program and the Lilly Innovation […]
Rock Stars of Science: Making Science Cool?
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about explaining science to the public, capped by GQ photo shoot featuring scientists and rock stars as part of the Rock Stars of Science campaign. I was happy to see our own Catriona Jamieson of UCSD featured with British singer-songwriter and rapper Jay Sean. According to a story […]
NAPA Draft Plan Released
The NAPA Advisory Council has released the draft National Plan today (bill summary available here). The plan includes a goal to stop the disease by 2025, which marks the first time the federal government has adopted a time frame to stop Alzheimer’s. The plan also recognizes the need for increasing enrollment in clinical trials, compressing […]
Would You Want to Know If You’re at Risk for Alzheimer’s?
Would You Want to Know If You’ll Get Alzheimer’s? Meryl Comer: We’re in a world of genomics. James Watson who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA had his genome mapped and was only the second to have done it. The cost has come down considerably. I think it was a million dollars to have it […]
More seniors are living past age 90, report states
The number of Americans over the age of 90 has tripled in thirty years, reaching 1.9 million in 2010, according to a new report. That means long-term care facilities are increasingly seeing older, sicker residents. Nearly 20% of people in their early 90s, and more than 30% of people in the late 90s, live in […]