Four Researchers Given Lifetime Achievement Awards By the Alzheimer's Association

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com The Alzheimer's Association recognized four scientists for their extraordinary achievements in advancing Alzheimer research at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2010 (AAICAD 2010) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honorees for their professional and scientific contributions to Alzheimer research are: Takeshi Iwatsubo, MD, Department of Neuropathology, Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo. Karen H. Ashe, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Director at the University of Minnesota. Marsel Mesulam, MD, Dunbar Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and Director of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University. Marilyn Albert, PhD, Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room