Roskamp Institute executive director addresses GPICA
By PAULETTE LeBLANC - | Feb 10, 2021
The Greater Pine Island Civic Association held its monthly meeting on Feb. 2, where Mike Mullan, executive director of the Roskamp Institute, gave a presentation on a red tide project being conducted by the non-profit organization.
According to Mullan, who is a molecular biologist, the institute has been working on diseases of the brain and central nervous system for decades. Within the duration of Mullan’s work, he was part of a team that originally discovered the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s disease. The institute, he said, established in Sarasota in 2003, is composed of a group of scientists, MDs and PhDs as well as a neurology clinic, serving approximately 6,000 people. The group is funded on a competitive basis by grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration as well as some private donors.