{"id":4212,"date":"2011-02-28T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:16:47","slug":"abraham-alzheimer-gran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/2011\/02\/28\/abraham-alzheimer-gran\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carmela Abraham awarded grant from the Alzheimer\u2019s Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2011\/02\/abraham_grant.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4211\" title=\"abraham_grant\" src=\"\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2011\/02\/abraham_grant.png\" alt=\"abraham_grant\" width=\"260\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Dr. Carmela Abraham, Professor of Biochemistry, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer\u2019s Association for her study entitled <em>Modulators of APP Dimerization as Novel Therapeutics for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease<\/em>. The study uses an entirely innovative idea to prevent the formation of the toxic amyloid protein known to kill neurons and synapses in the brains of Alzheimer\u2019s disease patients.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abraham has been invited to speak at two conferences in March. In Barcelona, Spain, she will speak at the <strong>10th International Congress on Alzheimer and Parkinson Disease<\/strong> on <em>Klotho Enhancers as Novel Neuroprotective Therapeutics for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and White Matter Degeneration<\/em>. In St. Louis, at the<strong> American Society for Neurochemistry<\/strong>, she will present on <em>The Anti-Aging Protein Klotho Affects Oligodendrocyte Differentiation<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carmela Abraham, Professor of Biochemistry, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer\u2019s Association for her study entitled Modulators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}