Carlos Cruchaga, PhD, has received a 2022 Zenith Fellow Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. The annual award is given to scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of Alzheimer’s disease research and are likely to make additional, substantial contributions in the future. Funding attached to the fellowships also helps support high-risk, high-reward projects in Alzheimer’s […]
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$9 million to fund study of ‘jumping genes’ in Alzheimer’s
Investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and at the University of Texas at San Antonio have received a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify how so-called transposable elements in DNA can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have identified […]
Cruchaga named Morriss Professor
Dr. Cruchaga, the leader of the lab and the director of the Neurogenomics and Informatics center was installed as Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor on May 24th 2022. https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/cruchaga-named-morriss-professor/