George Vradenburg, the Chairman and co-founder of UsAgainstAlzheimer's, emphasizes the increasing momentum and research dollars being spent in United States and other countries toward finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. He highlights the collaborative efforts and advancements being made to combat this debilitating disease, with a goal of achieving a breakthrough within the next 10 years. 

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Tuesday Talks: One Organization's Fight to Cure Alzheimer's 

Susan Hockfield, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and President Emerita at MIT, joins Cure CEO Seema Kumar, on the latest episode of Tuesday Talks. They discuss the shared innovation mission of Kendall Square and MIT and its impact on life science entrepreneurship. Hockfield shared insights from her trailblazing leadership of MIT, including strengthening its synergies with Kendall Square’s thriving biotech and tech industries. Discussion includes lessons learned from Hockfield’s projects, like the MIT Energy Initiative, that tackled global challenges and solidified the area as a powerhouse of transformative innovation. 

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XSeed Award finalist Aggregate Biosciences is developing precision diagnostics and therapeutics aiming to transform treatment for Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, and other amyloid-related diseases.

How This Company Is Fighting Alzheimer's With a New Approach to Amyloid

Technological innovation and clinical research are opening new doors for entrepreneurs to tackle spine surgery’s diagnostic gaps, improve outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs.

How Entrepreneurs Could Disrupt Spine Surgery

Sunbird Bio's platform aims to address a $20 billion global neurology diagnostics market to test for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more. 

How Sunbird Bio is Changing Brain Disease Diagnoses  

Companies and medical centers are increasingly looking at how inserting computer chips in the brain can help patients recover from a variety of conditions, in a market expected to hit $12 billion in the next decade.

From Thoughts to Reality – the Rise of Brain-Computer Interface Tech 

Bioworkshop is revolutionizing neurological disease research with an award-winning biochip platform that models complex brain conditions like Parkinson’s to accelerate drug discovery.

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How Bioworkshop is Building a Better Brain Model for Parkinson’s 

From sleep aids to speech restoration, neurotechnology advances at CES 2025 showcase practical applications for healthcare.

Neurotech Steps into the Spotlight at CES 2025

Lexeo Therapeutics is innovating not just genetic modifications as therapies for target diseases, but also manufacturing and clinical studies.

Lexeo Applies Gene Therapy to Alzheimer’s and Heart Diseases

Unlocking the body's electrical communication might make medicine look more like an electrician's toolkit and offer potential solutions for chronic inflammatory conditions.

Bioelectronic Medicine Gains Wider Acceptance

Funding of neuro research accelerates new targets and technologies for Alzheimer’s.

‘Neuro-Curious’ VCs Prompt Optimistic Alzheimer's Outlook

Sex is a biological variable in the development and expression of neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, stroke and Alzheimer's disease.

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How Neurological Diseases Differ in Women

Kevin Tracey, MD, co-founder of SetPoint Medical, shares how a novel vagus nerve stimulation device may help patients with  Crohn's, rheumatoid arthritis or multiple sclerosis

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How a Tiny Implant Could Derail Inflammatory Diseases

Working with his Einstein colleagues, Nicholas Sibinga, MD, earned a 2022 XSeed Award for identifying a protein pathway with potential to help prevent devastating neurodegenerative diseases including multiple sclerosis and ALS.

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New Approach for Neurodegenerative Diseases like MS and ALS  

George Vradenburg, Chairman and Co-Founder of UsAgainstAlzheimer's, shares his optimism about advances in Alzheimer’s research, including new diagnostics and progress for a future vaccine.

Five New Advances in Alzheimer’s: Early Detection, Risk Reduction and Maybe a Future Vaccine

Advocacy organizations like UsAgainstAlzheimer’s work to disrupt and diversify the status quo of research, prevention, early detection and diagnosis, and access to treatment. 

8 Things to Know About UsAgainstAlzheimer’s

Lexeo Therapeutics is developing pioneering treatments for genetically defined cardiovascular diseases and APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease.

Lexeo Therapeutics: Revolutionizing Genetic Medicine for Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Diseases 

#moonshot conveys a seeming impossible challenge that requires disruptive, innovative thinking and the right mix of resources, talent and effort. Cure asked four thought leaders recently about their health moonshots.

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What's Your Health Moonshot?

Brain Trust Bio is working to develop new ways to deliver nervous system drugs, like those that could be used to treat ALS, to help extend patient's lives with quality and dignity.

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What’s in a ‘Cure’ for ALS? 

How can societal perceptions of people who are neurodiverse change to enable them to fully their potential?

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Thinking Different About Neurodiversity 

Nathan Friedman and the New York City-based nonprofit, Understood.org, seek to end the stigmas surrounding neurodiversity.

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Five Facts about Neurodiversity You Probably Didn’t Know

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What is a cure or treatment worth?  Nicholas M. Boulis, MD, a top neurosurgeon who co-founded Brain Trust Bio, joins Tuesday Talks to discuss tackling the impossible:  the science and business of developing treatments for patients with ALS and other CNS diseases.

Tuesday Talks: What is the Cost of a Cure?

Are you fascinated by the intersection of technology, neuroscience and business? Tune in to our Tuesday Talks chat with Nader Halim, PhD, MBA, CEO of Innervace, a resident Cure company. Discover how this regenerative therapy startup is combining business and regenerative therapy to pioneer a new frontier for Parkinson's disease treatment.


Startup Lessons on Rebuilding Brains to Treat Parkinson’s

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