Alzheimers researchers get $857,000 to advance possible new drugs

researchersPHILADELPHIA: Dr Ralf Schworer, Professor Peter Tyler and Dr Olga Zubkova from Victoria’s Ferrier Research Institute are using natural sugars to try and find a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

The power of sugar is being harnessed in a possible new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease which is receiving an $857,000 funding boost.

Wellington scientists are part of a team which, in a world first, have worked out how to make complex sugars prevent certain memory-loss proteins from forming in the brain…

Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly.