Alzheimer’s: New Study Supports Amyloid Hypothesis But Suggests Alternative Treatment

In a new study, senior author Dr. Ulrich Hengst, associate professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain), believes an analysis of human brain cells provides new evidence in support of the “amyloid hypothesis,” the prevailing idea that Alzheimer's is caused by the accumulation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain. Read more at the CUIMC Newsroom.