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Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research Symposium

Cure Alzheimer's Fund is a non-profit based in Wellesley Hills dedicated to funding research with the highest probability of slowing, stopping, or reversing Alzheimer's disease. Visit our website to learn more.

Leading researchers from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium, including Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph.D., and Chairman Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., will gather to discuss new information on research toward finding a cure. In conjunction with the symposium, Banker White's documentary film The Genius of Marian will be screened earlier in the day.

This event is free and open to the public, but we do ask you to register in advance. Click here to register online, or call (781) 237-3800.

Schedule

1 – 2:30 p.m. Screening of Banker White's The Genius of Marian
   Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance. Click here for information.

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 4 p.m.  Registration and Reception
   On display: "Living With Alzheimer's," four short documentary films by four world-class filmmakers. A project created and curated by David Shenk, with funding from MetLife Foundation and in partnership with Cure Alzheimer's Fund. 

– 5:30 p.m. Symposium
Presenters:
   Rudy Tanzi
, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital; chair, Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research Consortium
   Sam Gandy, M.D., Ph.D., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; member, Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research Consortium

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