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The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation recognizes the impact that GAP-Net site Georgetown University Medical Center’s Memory Disorders Program has had on Alzheimer’s disease research. We congratulate them on their 20 years of dedication and service to the field. WASHINGTON (WJLA) — It’s estimated that one in 10 people 65 and over has Alzheimer’s disease. That’s nearly […]

The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation is proud and honored to work with GAP Net site Butler Hospital Memory and Aging Program’s Dr. Stephen Salloway, who was named Rhode Island’s Man of the Year for 2019. It is the cruelest of diseases. It is the sixth leading cause of death in America.  In the United States, […]

Three research volunteers given first ever national award for their essential role in combatting the greatest public health crisis for our society in this century Washington, DC (October 23, 2019) –  Today, the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) honors three Citizen Scientists® in recognition of the indispensable role clinical trial volunteers play in the fight […]

First disease-modifying drug in 16 years to be submitted for FDA approval in 2020 ***John Dwyer is available for comment today live from the National Alzheimer’s Summit in Washington, D.C.***  Washington, DC (October 22, 2019) – The President of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP), John Dwyer, issued the following statement on the announcement today […]

Al Sharpton delivered the keynote address for the Black Health Care Coalition, speaking out against the health care of black people and specifically Alzheimer’s. Turning his attention to the upcoming 2020 election, Sharpton says “All of the candidates running for President of the United States have health plans and should be focusing to eliminate the […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Alzheimer’s disease afflicts nearly 6 million people in the United States, and sadly affects the many more millions of people who love them. Yet the chairman and co-founder of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s believes that most people — especially those who could help make a difference — don’t grasp the overall scope and impact of […]

Spartan will donate $5 to the GAP Transportation Program from each sale of its rapid APOE test to GAP-Net Research Sites Ottawa, Canada (July 31, 2019) – Spartan Bioscience today announced a partnership with the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) to help recruit possible study participants and accelerate Alzheimer’s clinical trials. Through the partnership, Spartan will donate $5 from […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The long quest to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease could become discouraging. But ordinary people won’t allow that. They are a source of encouragement for doctors and researchers dedicated to stifling the disease, and for the people stricken by it. “Participating in a clinical trial gives me and others the opportunity […]

Two RSF Research and Innovation Center patients have been honored as nominees for the Citizen Scientist Award celebrating Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial participants. Wayne Vereen and Sharon Fratepietro have been clinical trial volunteer patients at the RSF Research and Innovation Center for more than four years, and during that time, they’ve received monthly infusions on site. […]

With support from the nonprofit Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital and Advocate Research Institute recently honored patients with Alzheimer’s disease and their care partners who have participated in Alzheimer’s disease research at the Advocate Memory Center. This local ceremony is part of the inaugural Citizen Scientist Awards® Program, the first national awards […]

GAP-Net site Okanagan Clinical Trials in Kelowna, BC recognized three of its Citizen Scientist Awards nominees in a ceremony at the Okanagan Innovation Centre in downtown Kelowna. A dozen times over two years, Gary Millward and his wife, Debra, drove from Quesnel to Kelowna through everything from wildfires and winter storms to rain and brilliant […]

During National Citizen Scientist Week, June 17-21, GAP Honors More Than 100 Award Nominees Washington, DC (June 17, 2019) – June 17-21, 2019 is the first ever National Citizen Scientist Week, a time to honor people who volunteer for Alzheimer’s research and inspire hope for new therapies for the disease. To celebrate the contributions of the remarkable volunteers […]

A podcast discussing Alzheimer’s disease – research, risk prevention, and other related topics. Robert Herriman is joined by Phil Sabel, M.A., the Clinical Research Coordinator at GAP-Net site Axiom Clinical Research in Tampa. Click here to listen to the June 13, 2019 episode.

By the time I was old enough to ask my grandmother questions about her life, it was too late. All I had were skeletons of stories I heard from my mom. I knew that it had been difficult for my grandmother when her parents, Irish immigrants on the vaudeville circuit, left her behind to help […]

The threat of Alzheimer’s disease looms over an aging America, but could a cure be in the offing? And if so, how soon? Experts say the answer is “yes” — and by the year 2025. That’s the date they’re shooting for, anyway. Much as President Kennedy once vowed to send a man to the moon […]

NIA Makes $9 Million Multiyear Grant to Study New Therapeutic Approach, an Orally- Administered Treatment for Alzheimer’s Washington, DC (May 20, 2019) – The President of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP), John Dwyer, today issued the following statement: “The nearly six million Americans with Alzheimer’s and their families deserve for no scientific stone to go […]

AzBusiness recognized Dr. Anna Burke as its 2019 Healthcare Innovator of the Year for her work in treating the behavioral and psychiatric disturbances that result from Alzheimer’s disease as well as her work building a community outreach program in the Phoenix area to teach people about brain health, Alzheimer’s, and clinical research. Dr. Burke is […]

The majority of experts agree that because Alzheimer’s disease is significantly underdiagnosed and underreported, a large number of people may not know they have it.  We have both spoken at length about the importance of early detection and diagnosis to allow for earlier interventions and care planning along with a broad array of methods and […]

Washington, DC (April 10, 2019) – The President of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP), John Dwyer, today issued the following statement: “The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation thanks Commissioner Seema Verma and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for its thoughtful and impactful leadership in implementing policies that will improve Medicare Advantage beneficiaries’ ability […]

The Alzheimer’s disease space is not an easy one for pharma companies to navigate. In 2018 alone, Lundbeck, Takeda, Merck, Janssen, AstraZeneca, and Eli Lilly and Company all faced setbacks or poor trial results. In March 2019, we learned that Biogen and Eisai also terminated late-phase studies. Fortune magazine notes few spaces in the life […]

Outside the daffodils and forsythia were blooming, but the group assembled in Nashville, Tennessee, hardly took notice. At the GAP-Net Site Optimization Conference, held February 27–March 1, representatives of 61 academic and private clinical trial sites had eyes and minds trained on efforts aiming to improve how Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials are done—and after years […]

The Global Alzheimer’s Platform (GAP) Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving Alzheimer’s clinical trials in the quest of a cure, has just wrapped the GAP-NET Site Optimization Conference in Nashville. The Feb. 27-March 1 meeting brought together approximately 150 representatives from its network of Alzheimer’s clinical research sites. The third annual GAP-NET conference attracted the […]

Clinical trials represent future hope for patients seeking better care, and there is no disease more in need of better care than Alzheimer’s disease. While death rates among most cancers, as well as heart disease, HIV-related illness, and other categories, have declined in the past decade, there has been no progress for Alzheimer’s disease. Better […]

GAP President Calls Memory Fitness Programs Through Medicare Advantage “a Game-Changer” Nashville (February 28, 2019)? – Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP) President John Dwyer today announced a roadmap for increasing participation in Alzheimer’s clinical trials by supporting and collaborating with memory fitness supplemental benefit programs offered through select Medicare Advantage plans across the United States. Dwyer […]