All Posts: neurodegenerative disease

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Georgetown Co-Leads New NIH-Funded Multi-Institutional ALS Clinical Research Consortium

In an effort to disrupt the ALS clinical research landscape in the U.S., the National Institutes of Health has announced the establishment of a transformative national clinical…

November 3, 2023

GUMC Stories

Doctoral Students Hone Presentation Skills and Build Community at Student Research Day

Hosted by the Georgetown University Medical Center Graduate Student Organization (MCGSO) and Office of Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE), Student Research Day took place…

October 20, 2023

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Nilotinib Appears Safe in Parkinson’s Trial; Drug Thought to Allow Dopamine Replenishment

WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and…

December 16, 2019

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New Clinical Trial Will Test Cancer Drug as Alzheimer's Treatment

The following is a press release issued by the ADDF: NEW YORK (September 29, 2016) – The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announces a $2.1 million grant awarded…

September 26, 2016

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Removing Protein “Garbage” in Nerve Cells May Help Control Two Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center say they have new evidence that challenges scientific dogma involving two fatal neurodegenerative diseases —…

December 11, 2013