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Computational brain science summer program at Brown opens up a world of science brown.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brown.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Brown President Christina H. Paxson said that with devastating consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia affecting more families every year, the university will bring the full force of its medical and brain-science expertise to bear on speeding up new treatments.
“It puts us in the big leagues,” said Dr. Stephen Salloway, associate director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Brown. “We’ve already been playing a big role in setting up a new fluid biomarker lab whose key goal is to develop blood tests [for early detection]. We have a number of tests that very promising. We hope to use them in the clinic soon.”