$3 million in newly-awarded research grants give researchers across the country the ability to investigate creative new ways to target abnormal tau, a toxic brain protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and many other neurodegenerative disorders.
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A Billionaire’s Dying Wish: A $10 Million Prize to Fight Brain Diseases
Featured in Forbes – The Rainwater Charitable Foundation launches the world’s largest brain prize program to encourage researchers to fight neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and PSP.
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The Richard Rainwater Prize Program
The Rainwater Prize Program was designed to promote three prize categories, one of which is an annual prize, and the last two being milestone prizes that are only awarded upon achievement of the defined parameters. Click below to learn more.
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