Researchers win contract to study stem cells from Alzheimer’s patients
MIAMI: Miller School researchers Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D, and Derek Dykxhoorn, Ph.D, have won a three-year U.S. Department of Defense contract to ascertain and analyze induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease patients with specific Alzheimer’s linked genetic mutations.