Alzheimer’s disease is one of the leading causes of disability in the elderly, affecting 5.4 million people in the United States and 35 million people worldwide. Two-thirds these individuals are women, and though they are disproportionately affected, the biological basis of the sex differences in Alzheimer’s onset and progression is not well understood.
Bistra Iordanova, assistant professor of bioengineering at Pitt, received a $25,000 award from the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center to collect data from female rodent models, integrate it with her existing datasets from males and begin to examine whether Alzheimer’s onset and progression differs between the two. Read more here