04/28/2021
Harrisburg, PA - Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today announced the Department of Health has awarded $11.3 million in grants to three recipients focused on Alzheimer’s disease research. The Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) program awards research grants through a Request for Application (RFA) with the intent to fund Collaborative Research on Alzheimer’s disease.
The Department has awarded the 2019-2020 CURE program funds to:
University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Karl Herrup, PhD, for the study on the
Functional Interpretation of Alzheimer’s Loci Across Cell Types, Ages and DNA Damage;
Temple University’s Silvia Fossati, PhD, for the study on