School of Medicine’s Gary Landreth receives grant to continue working on Alzheimer’s research

Gary LandrethGary Landreth, professor of neurosciences and neurology, received a 2015 Research Grant Award from The Alzheimer’s Association.

Landreth, who also is the director of the Alzheimer Research Laboratory, won a $240,000 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant to fund his research in roles of TREM2 in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. The funds will be distributed over a course of three years.

Landreth’s lab at Case Western Reserve University focuses on investigating the actions of genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease and devising new therapeutic strategies for its prevention and treatment.

The Alzheimer’s Association is the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research, having awarded more than $350 million to over 2,300 projects since 1982.

Alzheimer’s Association research grants are intended to advance the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, help identify new treatment strategies, provide information to improve care for people with dementia, and further knowledge of brain health and disease prevention.