American Health Assistance Foundation Researcher Is Featured Facilitator
CLARKSBURG, Md., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Health Assistance Foundation and Asbury Methodist Village are partnering to host a special community screening and discussion of the HBO Series The Alzheimer's Project to bring awareness to the community about this devastating disease, and to share information on cutting edge research.
Part one of the Momentum in Science segment of this four-part series documentary will air on Thursday, August 13th, at 6:30 p.m. in the theatre of the Rosborough Cultural Arts & Wellness Center at Asbury Methodist Village, located at 409 Russell Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Posted event signs will guide attendees to parking and the theatre.
The event is free and open to the public. An RSVP to Amy Ostrolenk at 301-216-4747 is appreciated.
The Momentum in Science segment of the HBO documentary details the current explosion of knowledge within the scientific and medical communities--from imaging the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease, to understanding the roles that genetics and lifestyle might play, to the tremendous and exciting progress in the effort to develop drugs to treat or even prevent the disease.
A presentation will follow the screening featuring J. Kevin Foskett, Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Physiology and Chair of the Cell Biology and Physiology Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. "Dr. Foskett is an American Health Assistance Foundation 2008 grantee whose work is certainly groundbreaking, involving research into the relationship between a protein called presenilin and the brain's way of regulating calcium concentrations. Dr. Foskett has shown that presenilin disrupts the regulated calcium in cells causing a cascade of
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