March 6, 2012

The Alzheimer's Drug Pipeline - Dr. Jeffrey Cummings

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The Alzheimer's Drug Pipeline - Dr. Jeffrey Cummings

About This Episode

Understanding — and accelerating — the drug pipeline is crucial to efforts to stop Alzheimer’s, whether you are a policymaker, work in Alzheimer’s research or care, or are one of the thousands of grassroots advocates across the nation. Click play to listen to a recording of this call that took place on Tuesday, March 6th.

This call was made possible by the generous donation of Shawn Taylor, trustee of KPB Corporation, whose mother has Alzheimer’s and maternal grandpareAnts died of this horrible disease.

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