Funded Programs - Conferences

Andrew Robertson, PhD
Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology
Alzheimer's Disease
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2008 - 2009

Sally Shumaker, PhD
Wake Forest Health Sciences
11th Biennial Graylyn Conference on Women's Cognitive Health
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2007 - 2008

Bruce L. Miller, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Fifth International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementia
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2006

Mark A. Gluck, Ph.D.
Rutgers University - Newark
Hippocampus, Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease: Harnessing Genetic and Computational Technologies and Clinical Perspectives on Alzheimer's in the Middle East
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2006 - 2007

Stacie Bloom, Ph.D.
New York Academy of Sciences
Imaging and the Aging Brain
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2006

Ron C. Peck
Neurological Disease Foundation Burlingame, CA Challenging Views of Alzheimer’s Disease
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2005

Robert P. Friedland, MD
Regional Symposium on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders in the Middle East
Award: $3,000
Duration: 2005

Robert N. Butler, MD
Stress: Putting the Brain Back into Medicine
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2004

Workshop on Andropause
Pros and Cons of Testosterone and its Effects on CNS
Award: $10,000
Duration: 2002

Biomarkers of Aging Workshop
Award: $10,000
Duration: 2000

Workshop on Longevity
Genes: From Primitive Organisms to Man
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2001 - 2002

The Aging Factor in Health and Disease: An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Scientists
Award: $9,000
Duration: 1999

Anders Wallin, MD, PhD
Institute of Clinical Neuroscience
Sweden
The 1st Congress of the International Society for Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2003

Amos Korczyn, MD, MSc
Third International Congress on Vascular Dementia
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2003

Israel Hanin, PhD
Loyola University Chicago Maywood, IL
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease: New Perspectives
6th International Conference
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2003

Naim M. Gribaa
The Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System
New York, NY
Alzheimer’s Conference
Award: $2,500
Duration: 2003

Illana Gozes, PhD
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Summer Neuropeptide 2003 Conference
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2003 - 2004

Ezio Giacobini, MD, PhD
Geneva University Hospitals
Switzerland
Seventh International Geneva/Springfield Symposium on Advances in Alzheimer’s Therapy
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2002 - 2003

8th International Montreal/Springfield Symposium on Advances in Alzheimer’s Therapy
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2003

Workshop on: Physical, Mental and Social Activities Affecting Cognitive Health
Award: $15,000
Duration: 2003

James F. Toole, PhD
Wake Forest Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, NC
Planning for A Prospective, Randomized Study for the Prevention & Treatment of Post-Stroke Dementia
Award: $7,500
Duration: 2002 - 2004

Bi-Annual Research Seminar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders of the Aging Nervous System for the New York City Research Group
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2002

Amos Korczyn, MD, MSc
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Second International Congress On Vascular Dementia
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2002

Yael Goshen, PhD
The Alzheimer’s Association of Israel (AAI)
Ramar - Gan, Israel
The First Israeli Consensus Conference on the Issue of The Treatment of Alzheimer Patients in Israel
Award: $10,000
Duration: 2002 - 2003

The ILC-ISOA-Canyon
Ranch Series on Cognitive Aging: Sleep Disorders
Award: $7,500
Duration: 2002 - 2003

Manfred Windisch, PhD
JSW-Research Forschungslabor GmbH
Graz, Austria
5th International Conference on Aging and Dementia - Current and Future Concepts
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2001 - 2002

Mark P. Mattson, PhD
National Institute on Aging Gerontology Research Center Baltimore, MD
Successful Aging: 30th Annual Meeting of the American Aging Assoc., 15th Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Gerontology
Award: $4,000
Duration: 2001 - 2002

Jed A. Levine, MA
Alzheimer’s Association
New York, NY
Bi-Annual Research Seminar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders of the Aging Nervous System for the New York City Research Group
Award: $10,000
Duration: 2001 - 2003

Robert P. Friedland, MD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH
International Symposium on Alzheimer’s Disease in Middle East
Award: $20,000
Duration: 2001

Avraham Fisher, PhD
Israel Institute for Biological Research
Ness-Ziona, Israel
The XIth International Symposium on Cholinergic Mechanisms - Function and Dysfunction
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2001 - 2002

Michael W. Weiner, MD
Northern California Institute for Research and Education
San Francisco, CA
Neuroimaging of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders’ Satellite Meeting
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2000

Joyce Chase
Yale University Medical School
New Haven, CT
Cognition Enhancers, Anti-Alzheimer and Neuroprotective Drugs’ Symposium
Award: $5,000
Duration: 2000



Funded programs - Partnership Sponsored Conferences

Neurogenesis as a Therapeutic Strategy for Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Duration: 2005

Sixth Annual Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Conference
Duration: 2005

Fifth Annual Investigators’ Meeting
Duration: 2004

New Directions in Neuroprotection Basics: Basic Mechanisms, Molecular Targets and Treatment Strategies
Duration: 2004

Fourth Annual Investigators’ Meeting
Duration: 2003

Creating New Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
Duration: 2003

Facilitating the Development of PET Diagnostics for Alzheimer’s Disease
Duration: 2003

Apolipoprotein E as a Target for Developing New Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease
Duration: 2003

Neurofibrillary Tangles as a Target for Developing New Therapeutics for AD
Duration: 2002

Third Annual Investigators’ Meeting
Duration: 2002

Second Annual Investigators’ Meeting
Duration: 2001

First Annual Investigators’ Meeting
Duration: 2000

Barriers to the Discovery and Development of Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease
Duration: 2000

Achieving Cognitive Vitality with Aging
Duration: 2000