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Celebrating 20 Years of AFTD’s Pilot Grant Program
Over the past 20 years, AFTD’s Pilot Grant program, which supports early-career researchers or new ideas, has funded $2.8 million in innovative FTD research. In 2005, AFTD founder Helen-Ann Comstock and a small group of medical advisors awarded $35,000 to Eileen Bigio, MD, a clinical researcher at Northwestern University, to identify abnormal proteins present in…
FTD Science Digest: Making FTD Visible – The Critical Role of Biomarkers in Diagnosis and Treatment
Biomarkers are critical to understanding and treating any disease. A biomarker is something measurable in the body that can indicate a disease’s presence and severity. High blood pressure, for example, is a biomarker that can indicate whether a person has heart disease and how serious it is: the higher the blood pressure numbers, the more…
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