Funded Programs Drug Discovery

James Malter, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease with mGluR5 Inhibitor
Award: $96,427
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Walter Schmidt, PhD
University of Georgia
Enhancing IDE-mediated destruction of Abeta and other amyloiogenic peptides
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Tara Spires-Jones, DPhil
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sirtuins as modifiers of neurodegeneration in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia
Award: $85,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Daniel Laskowitz, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
A novel apoE-derived therapeutic reduces AD pathology
Award: $178,449
Duration: 2007 - 2009

Luciano D'Adamio, MD, PhD
RemeGenix, Inc.
Commercialization of BR12 peptides for AD
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Nazneen Dewji, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Novel Therapeutic Approaches for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $75,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Michelle Block, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University
NADPH Oxidase as a Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $163,036
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Einar M. Sigurdsson, PhD
NYU School of Medicine
Clearance of Pathological Tau Conformers
Award: $125,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Preventing Neuronal Loss in the Non-Human Primate Cortex
Award: $150,000
Duration: 2006 - 2009

Yung-Feng Liao, PhD
Academia Sinica
Genetic Modifiers of gamma-Secretase-mediated selective cleavage of amyloid precursor protein in Alzheimer's disease
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Alvin Terry, PhD
Medical College of Georgia
New Drugs for Treating the Cognitive Deficits and Psychotic Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $75,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Larry Baum, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Testing 17-AAG for Treating Fronto-Temporal Dementia
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Shaila Handattu, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
HDL Modulation, Inflammation and Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $89,016
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Louis B. Hersh, PhD
University of Kentucky
Neprilysin and Peripheral Clearance of Amyloid Peptides
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Iliya M. Lefterov, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Identifying LXR activators for Potential Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $150,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Horacio Saragovi, PhD
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, S.M.B.D.-Jewish General Hospital
Efficacy of TrkA-targeted neuroprotective drugs in a mouse model of AD
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

A. Claudio Cuello, MD, DSc, FRSC
McGill University, Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
A novel combined experimental therapy in an Alzheimer's transgenic model
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Ben Bahr, PhD
University of Connecticut
In vitro testing of new lysosomal modulatory drugs for reducing tau aggregates in a hippocampal slice model
Award: $65,000
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Gabriela Chiosis, PhD
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Development of Hsp90 inhibitors as novel therapeutics for AD
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2007-2008

Paul Lombroso, MD
Yale University Medical School
Screening for inhibitors of STEP
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Raz Yirmiya, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The role of brain interleukin-1 in Alzheimer's disease associated memory disturbances
Award: $40,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Edward Nemergut, MD
University of Virginia
The use of high-dose intravenous erythropoletin to prevent cognitive dysfunction following cardiopulmonary bypass
Award: $94,972
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Yousef Al-Abed, PhD
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research North Shore
CNI-1493 inhibits Abeta production and prevents plaque formation in an animal model of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $75,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Michael S. Wolfe, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Selective Amyloid-Lowering Agents
Award: $130,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Frank M. Longo, MD, PhD
PharmatrophiX
Inhibition of Alzheimer-related neurodegeneration by small molecule neurotrophin receptor ligands
Award: $300,000
Duration: 2006 -2007

Generation and Optimization of NO mimetics for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease–Part 2
Award: $130,000
Duration: 2006 – 2007

Jari Koistinaho, MD, PhD
University of Kuopio
The transcription factor Nrf2 mediated pathway as a therapeutic target in Alzheimer's disease
Award: $80,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Michael Hutton, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Development of a cell-based platform for drug discovery in tauopathy
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Jianhua Zhou, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Distal cis-elements and compounds that regulate tau splicing
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Ken A. Witt, Ph.D.
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
Somatostatin Agonist Treatment for Cognitive Aging and Dementia
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2007

D. Martin Watterson, PhD
Northwestern University
Gene-Regulating Protein Kinase Inhibitors as Potential AD Therapeutics
Award: $130,000
Duration: 2007

Jack T. Rogers, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Alzheimer's Drugs to APP translation and alpha secretase coactivation
Award: $80,000
Duration: 2007 - 2009

Juan Sanchez-Ramos, MD, PhD
University of South Florida
Bone Marrow-Mobilizing Agents for Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $70,802
Duration: 2007 - 2008

The Effect of ApoE Mimetic Therapeutic Peptide in a Murine Model of AD.
Award: $102,364
Duration: 2004 – 2005

An ApoE-Derived Therapeutic Improves AD Pathology in a Murine Model following Head Injury – Year 2
Award: $93,449
Duration: 2005 - 2006

John Cashman, Ph.D.
Human Biomolecular Research Institute
New Immune Modulators of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $65,000
Duration: 2007

James J. Lah, MD, PhD
Emory University
Targeted Discovery of LR11/SorLA-Based Alzheimer Therapeutics
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Sidney Strickland, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University
Screening for PAI-1 inhibitors to increase plasmin AlphaBeta- degrading activity
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Dale E. Bredesen, Ph.D
Buck Institute for Age Research
Screening for Alzheimer's Therapeutics Based on a Novel Target
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2004

Award: $50,000
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Gary Gibson, Ph.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Tests of therapies aimed at mitochondrial deficits in neurodegenerative diseases
Award: $80,000
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Allopregnanolone as a Neurogenic Factor for Recovery of Neurons in Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $274,659
Duration: 2005 - 2008

Eckhard Mandelkow, Ph.D.
Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology
Search for Inhibitors of Tau Aggregation
Award: $377,500
Duration: 2003 - 2007

Search for Inhibitors of Tau Aggregation
Award: $159,500
Duration: 2005 - 2006

Eva-Maria Mandelkow, MD, PhD
Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology
MARK kinase inhibtors
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Paul Gard, Ph.D.
University of Brighton
Cognitive-enhancing effects of angiotensin IV: an investigation of molecular mechanisms
Award: $16,000
Duration: 2007 - 2008

David Weinshenker, Ph.D.
Emory University
Noradrenergic treatments for Alzheimer's disease
Award: $90,887
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Barry Forman, Ph.D.
City of Hope
Synthetic LXRBeta Ligands in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $75,000
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Novel Therapeutics Targeting Neuroinflammation
Award: $140,000
Duration: 2005 – 2006

Search for Inhibitors of Tau Aggregation
Award: $159,500
Duration: 2005 – 2006

NGF Small Molecule Mimetics: Preclinical Studies
Award: $150,000
Duration: 2005 – 2006

An ApoE-Derived Therapeutic Improves AD Pathology in a Murine Model following Head Injury - Year 2
Award: $93,449
Duration: 2005 – 2006

Siew Yeen Chai, PhD
Howard Florey Institute
Victoria, Australia
IRAP - Novel Target for the Development of Memory-Enhancing Agents
Award: $82,000
Duration: 2005 – 2006

Anne Cataldo, PhD
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Belmont, MA
A Novel Method of Cell-Mediated Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $75,000
Duration: 2005 – 2006

Berislav Zlokovic, MD, Ph.D
University of Rochester
Blockers of RAGE/amyloid-beta interaction at the blood brain barrier.
Award: $295,723
Duration: 2004 - 2007

Nicholas Webster, Ph.D.
Veteran's Medical Research Foundation
Development of cell-permeable NGF mimetics
Award: $130,000
Duration: 2006 - 2008

Greg R. J. Thatcher, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Generation and optimization of NO mimetics for treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $260,000
Duration: 2004 - 2007

Steven Schreiber, M.D.
University of California, Irvine
Efficacy of the Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor, SAHA, in AD Transgenic Mice- A Proof-of-Concept Study
Award: $130,000
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Moussa B.H. Youdim, PhD
Technion
Development and molecular mechanism of neuroprotective activity of novel bifucntional Cholineterase-monoamine oxidase inhibitor-iron chelators for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body disease
Award: $195,000
Duration: 2006 - 2008

Stuart A. Lipton, PhD
Neuromolecular, Inc.
Mill Valley, CA
Drug Development Plan for Nitro-Memantine
(Memantine-ONO 2) Derivatives
Award: $244,700
Duration: 2004 – 2006

June Kinoshita
Alzheimer Research Forum Foundation
Waltham, MA
Alzheimer Cheminformatics Resource
Award: $60,275
Duration: 2004 – 2006

Michael Hutton, PhD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
In Vivo Testing of Compounds that Block the Development of Neurofibrillary Tau Pathology
Award: $196,662
Duration: 2004 – 2006

The TGF-Beta Pathway as a Therapeutic Target to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $152,300
Duration: 2004 – 2005

Marta Weinstock-Rosin, PhD
Hebrew University Medical Centre
Jerusalem, Israel
Award for Major Scientific Achievement in Drug Discovery and Development for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2004 – 2005

Michael L. Shelanski, MD, PhD
Columbia University
New York, NY
Pharmacological Reversal of the Behavioral and Electrical Sequelae of A-Beta Deposition
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2004 – 2005

Leonard Petrucelli, PhD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Hsp70 Activity and Tau A Therapeutic Target
Award: $125,000
Duration: 2004 – 2005

BDNF Small Molecule Mimetics
Award: $162,500
Duration: 2004 – 2005

Screening for Alzheimer’s Therapeutics Based on a Novel Target
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2004

In Vivo Analysis of Effects of Microtubule-Stabilizing Drugs in Tau Mutant Mice
Award: $258,352
Duration: 2003 – 2006

Wolfgang J. Streit, PhD University of Florida Gainesville, FL
Role of Fractalkine in Regulating Neuronmicroglia Interactions
Award: $126,492
Duration: 2003 – 2005

Small Molecule Drug Discovery Targeted To The Alzheimer’s APP-mRNA 5’
Untranslated Region
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2003 – 2005

Ram Ramabhadran, PhD
Tranzyme Pharma, Inc.
Research Triangle Park, NC
Cell Culture Models and Animal Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $493,550
Duration: 2003 – 2005

Novel Properties of Analogs of Choline for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Award: $259,651
Duration: 2003 – 2005

Columbia University
New York, NY
Calpain Inhibitor: A Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease - Part 2
Award: $88,205
Duration: 2003 – 2005

Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
The TGF-Beta Pathway as a Therapeutic Target to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $152,232
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Drug Discovery: Estrogen Related Compounds in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $90,000
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Efficacy of Oral Heparin Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $98,563
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Yasuji Matsuoka, PhD
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC
Development of Abeta-Binding Agents for Abeta Sequestration Therapy
Award: $98,500
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Edward D. Levin, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
EC-SOD Protection from Aging-Induced Cognitive Deficits Due to Oxidative Stress
Award: $52,775
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Grant A. Krafft, PhD
Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Glenview, IL
High Throughput Screens for ADDL-Blocker Compounds
Award: $133,493
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Novel Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) Precursors as Anti-Amyloid Agents - Part 2
Award: $191,220
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Luc Buee, PhD
INSERM U422 (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research)
Lille, France
Towards Pin1 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $85,000
Duration: 2003 – 2004

Joel L. Sussman, PhD
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Structural and Functional Analysis of Beta Secretase as a Potential Target for Therapeutic Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $312,555
Duration: 2002 – 2005

Manfred Windisch, PhD
JSW-Research Forschungslabor GmbH
Graz, Austria
Development of a New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease using Anti-Aggregatory Beta-Synuclein Derived Peptides
Award: $260,000
Duration: 2002 – 2004

Founders Program: Studies on Human Memapsin 2 (Beta-Secretase): Drug Design for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $250,000
Duration: 2002 – 2004

Beka Solomon, PhD
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
A Novel Approach Towards Vaccination Against Alzheimer Beta-Amyloid Peptide
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2002 – 2004

Rebekah Loy, PhD
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Valproate and Lithium to Inhibit Tau Pathophysiology
Award: $115,309
Duration: 2002 – 2004

Dora M. Kovacs, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA
Effect of ACAT Inhibition on A-Beta Levels in PS1-APP Transgenic Mice
Award: $125,000
Duration: 2002 – 2004

Natural Product Extracts that Reduce A-Beta Peptide Accumulation
Award: $250,000
Duration: 2002 – 2004

Jordan Tang, PhD
Zapaq, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
Studies on Human Memapsin (Beta-Secretase): Prerequisite of Drug Design for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $500,000
Duration: 2002 – 2003

Marcos A. Marques, PhD
ApoLogic, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
Novel Drug Target in Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $145,395
Duration: 2002 – 2003

Allon Therapeutics, Inc.
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Alzheimer’s Disease Biotech Program
Award: $253,100
Duration: 2002 – 2003

Dale E. Bredesen, PhD
Buck Institute for Age Research
Novato, CA
Development of Drugs for a New Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2002 – 2003

Etienne-Emile Baulieu, PhD
MAPREG
Le Kremlin-Bicetre
France
Control of Microtubule Assembly in the Nervous System: Novel Approach for the Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Award: $150,000
Duration: 2002 – 2003

Alan Faden, MD
Georgetown University
School of Medicine Washington, DC
Modulation of Beta-Amyloid Induced Neuronal Apoptosis by Selective Activation of Metabotrophic Glutamate Receptors
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2001 – 2005

D. Martin Watterson, PhD
Northwestern University Medical School
Chicago, IL
Ligands that Suppress Neuroinflammatory Responses
Award: $476,278
Duration: 2001 – 2004

Duane L. Venton, PhD
University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL
A Combinatorial Search for Beta-Cyclodextrins to Abate the Neurotoxicity of Amyloid-Beta-Peptide in Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $311,916
Duration: 2001 – 2004

Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA
Small Molecule Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $340,000
Duration: 2001 – 2004

Simon Melov, PhD
Buck Institute for Age Research
Novato, CA
Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $97,987
Duration: 2001 – 2004

Stephen M. Strittmater, PhD
Yale University Medical School
New Haven, CT
Nogo Antagonists in Axon Regeneration and Plasticity
Award: $267,928
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Sidney Strickland, PhD
The Rockefeller University New York, NY
Analysis of the Role to tPA and Plasmino(gen) in Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $256,480
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Targeted to the APP-mRNA 5’Untranslated Region
Award: $96,734
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Elliott Richelson, MD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Peptide Nucleic Acids Targeted to the Amyloid Precursor Protein
Award: $200,000
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Sebastian Lazareno, PhD
Medical Research
Council Technology
London, England
Development of Selective Allosteric Enhancers at Human Muscarinic Receptors
Award: $473,626
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Jerry Buccafusco, PhD
Prime Behavior Testing Laboratories, Inc.
Augusta, GA
A Computer-Assisted Cognitive Test Battery for Aged Monkey
Award: $112,947
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Joseph K. Belanoff, MD
Corcept Therapeutics, Inc.
Menlo Park, CA
Slowing the Progression of Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Mifepristone
Award: $462,929
Duration: 2001 – 2003

Tim Tully, PhD
Helicon Therapeutics
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
CREB and the Discovery of Cognitive Enhancers
Award: $238,780
Duration: 2001 – 2002

Kenneth Kosik, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA Identifying Drugs that Inhibit Kinase-Induced Dissociation of Tau from Microtububles
Award: $130,000
Duration: 2001 – 2002

Christopher B. Eckman, PhD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Herbal Extracts that Reduce A-Beta Peptide Accumulation
Award: $127,567
Duration: 2001 – 2002

Ming-Ming Zhou, PhD
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Rochester, NY
Structure-based Functional Design of Antagonists for Glutamate Receptors
Award: $600,621
Duration: 2000 – 2004

Frank M. Longo, MD, PhD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Alzheimer’s Therapeutics: Neurotrophin Small Molecule Mimetics
Award: $521,517
Duration: 2000 – 2004

NGF Small Molecule Mimetics: Preclinical Studies
Award: $150,000
Duration: 2005 - 2006

Khalid Iqbal, PhD
NY State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities
New York, NY
Screening Assays to Inhibit Alzheimer Neurofibrillary Degeneration
Award: $528,869
Duration: 2000 – 2004

Suzana Petanceska, PhD
Nathan Kline Institute
Orangeburg, NY
Pharmacogenetic Effects of Human apoE on the Amyloid-Reducing Activity of Cholesterol Lowering Drugs in a
Transgenic Mouse Model for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $360,742
Duration: 2000 – 2003

Robert Kisilevsky, MD, PhD,
FRCPC
Queens University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada
Novel Glycosaminoglycan Precursors As Anti-Amyloid Agents
Award: $245,300
Duration: 2000 – 2003

Michael W. Wolfe, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Helical Peptidomimetics as Inhibitors of Alzheimer’s Gamma-Secretase
Award: $147,067
Duration: 2000 – 2002

Kumar Sambamurti, PhD
Medical University of
South Carolina
Charleston, SC
Evaluation of GPI-Anchored Proteins as Targets for Inhibition of Beta-Secretase
Award: $200,000
Duration: 2000 – 2002

Jack T. Rogers, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA
A New Translational Regulatory Target in the Alzheimer’s APP Transcript
Award: $100,000
Duration: 2000 – 2002

Ottavio Arancio, MD, PhD
Nathan Kline Institute
Orangeburg, NY
Calpains: A Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $121,126
Duration: 2000 – 2001

Peter B. Reiner, VMD, PhD
Active Pass Pharmaceuticals
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Brain-Expressed ABC Transporters as Targets for AD Therapeutics
Award: $150,000
Duration: 2000 – 2001

William S. Messer, Jr., PhD
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH
Development of Selective Muscarinic Agonists for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $267,066
Duration: 2000 – 2001

Lee-Way Jin, MD, PhD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
The Amelioration of A-Beta Aggregation and Cell Toxicity by Tricyclic Pyrone Compounds
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2000 – 2001

Ciaran M. Regan, PhD, DSc
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin
Ireland
Determination of the Effect of Chronic Administration of ABS-205 on Morris Water Maze Learning in the Aged Rat
Award: $50,000
Duration: 2000

Mary L. Michaelis, PhD
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
Microtubule - Stabilizing Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $300,248
Duration: 1999 – 2003

Jonathan D. Smith, PhD
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH
Estrogen and ApoE; Interaction and Effect on Pathogenesis in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $416,130
Duration: 1999 – 2002

Avraham Fisher, PhD
Israel Institute for Biological Research
Ness-Ziona, Israel
Novel M1 Muscarinic Agonists: From Treatment Toward Delaying Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $450,000
Duration: 1999 – 2002

Illana Gozes, PhD
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Israel Femtomolar-Acting Neuroprotective Peptides: Application for Inhibition of Neurodegenerative Disease
Award: $220,000
Duration: 1999 – 2001