Three researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently have received funding from the Alzheimer’s Association for projects that aim to study and make progress against the disease.
Enmanuel Perez, MD, PhD, an instructor in neurology, has received a $250,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to study how traumatic brain injury leads to inflammation, neurodegeneration and dementia, and why people who carry the genetic variant APOE4 are at especially high risk of developing dementia after traumatic brain injury.