Chemistry professor David Vocadlo up at SFU may be helping to unlock secrets about Alzheimer's disease - and how to slow or prevent the debilitating disease.
He co-authored a study published recently in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, looking at a particular brain protein and its relationship to Alzheimer's. He and grad students Scott Yuzwa and Xiaoyang Shan found that mice given a special inhibitor, which targets an enzyme that interacts with the protein, maintained healthier brains.
To date, there have been no treatments that can slow the progression of Alzheimer's. See www. sfu.ca for more details.
Foundation boost
The RBC Foundation recently helped give a boost to the Down Syndrome Research Foundation in Burnaby in the form of a $10,000 grant.
The money will be used to support the Reading, Communications and Transitions Project, a literacy program.
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