Researchers at Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic will lead a group that has received a major grant to study new ways to treat and possibly prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
The clinic will work with the University of Florida and the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle with $7.5 million from the National Institutes of Health.
As Mayo neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Nilufer Ertekin-Taner explains in a video from the Mayo Clinic News Network, the team wants to understand the role that innate immunity — the body’s defense system — plays in Alzheimer’s disease.
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