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“There is no greater honor that can be bestowed than recognition from colleagues,” said Kosik, the Harriman Professor of Neuroscience. “I am particularly pleased that in the race to cure Alzheimer’s, this award recognizes the necessity of foundational neuroscience to solve the disease, as embodied in decades of research I have conducted through numerous invaluable collaborations.”
Central to Kosik’s Alzheimer’s research is the study of tau, a protein that is essential to the structure and proper function of neurons, and found in the brain plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that are characteristic of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Cambridge, UK Receive 2021 Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer s Research
American Brain Foundation honors Kenneth S. Kosik, MA, MD, and Giovanna Mallucci, MD, PhD, for their groundbreaking work.
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MIAMI, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The 2021 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick s, Alzheimer s and Related Diseases has been awarded to Kenneth S. Kosik, MA, MD, University of California Neuroscience Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, and Giovanna Mallucci, MD, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK.
The Potamkin Prize is given in partnership with the American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation. Potamkin Philanthropies Co-Chair Andi Potamkin presented the award to Kenneth S. Kosik, MA, MD, and Giovanna Mallucci, MD, PhD, at the Foundation s 2021 Commitment to Cures virtual gala, hosted by CNBC personality Jim Cramer.
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When UC Santa Barbara neurology professor Kenneth S. Kosik was a newly minted graduate in 1972, with bachelor s and master s degrees in English literature from Case Western University, becoming one of the foremost authorities in the field of Alzheimer s research was probably nowhere on his radar. But that would soon change. Even as an undergrad, I learned that what seemed impossibly remote suddenly arrives one day, Kosik said. It was a lesson he gleaned from years of examining the human experience through the channel of literature.
One such improbable event occurred only a few years later, in 1976, when he earned a medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Deciding to pursue medicine when he realized that the real world was a source of continuous inspiration, it was an early milestone in what would be a career studying the ultimate lens of human experience: the brain.
When UC Santa Barbara neurology professor Kenneth S. Kosik was a newly minted graduate in 1972, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature from Case Western University, becoming one of the foremost authorities in the field of Alzheimer’s research was probably nowhere on his radar. But that would soon change.
“Even as an undergrad, I learned that what seemed impossibly remote suddenly arrives one day,” Kosik said. It was a lesson he gleaned from years of examining the human experience through the channel of literature.
One such “improbable” event occurred only a few years later, in 1976, when he earned a medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Deciding to pursue medicine when he realized that the real world was a source of continuous inspiration, it was an early milestone in what would be a career studying the ultimate lens of human experience: the brain.