Rosemary Navarro was living in Mexico when her brother called from California. Something wasn’t right with their mom, then in her early 40s. She was having trouble paying bills and keeping jobs as a food preparer in convalescent homes. Navarro, then 22, moved back to the U.S. with her two young children. Before long, Navarro […]
Researcher is known for developing a way to measure levels of amyloid beta in brain John Cirrito, PhD, has been honored by the MetLife Foundation for his work measuring levels in the brain of amyloid beta, a protein linked to the neural degeneration of Alzheimer’s disease. John Cirrito, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at […]
Physician-scientist is fifth School of Medicine winner Randall J. Bateman, MD, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research on July 20 in Washington. Bateman and this year’s other honoree, German researcher Christian Haass, MD, have […]