FTD Science Digest - For Our Community

AFTD's newsletter emailed 6x/year for people on the FTD journey that explains and provides updates on FTD research.

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…

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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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