Feb 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fayron Epps, PhD, MSN Dr. Fayron Epps is one of the nine 2020 WAM Research Grant Recipients, and one of four research studies WAM is funding as part of the Alzheimer’s Association RAPID program, designed by the Alzheimer’s Association to help accelerate research...
Nov 4, 2021 | Researchers
Matthew Blurton-Jones, PhD Sunil Gandhi, PhD Drs. Matthew Blurton-Jones and Sunil Gandhi were 2017 WAM Research Grant recipients. Women have a significantly increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), yet the underlying...
Oct 29, 2021 | Researchers
Warren Taylor, MD, MHSc Dr. Warren Taylor was one of the 2017 WAM Research Grant recipients. He used his funding to ask: What impact does stress have on women’s memory and on how her brain processes cognitive information? Increased stress may contribute to brain aging...
Oct 14, 2021 | Researchers
Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton was one of the 2019 WAM Research Grant recipients. She used her funding to ask: How do common breast cancer treatments affect a woman’s risk of Alzheimer’s? Her team discovered that breast cancer therapies,...
Sep 30, 2021 | Researchers
Sarah Banks, PhD Erin Sundermann, PhD Drs. Sarah Banks and Erin Sundermann were 2020 WAM Research Grant recipients. For many years, Drs. Banks and Sundermann have been dedicated to investigating why women experience AD differently than men, and their...
