BvB Dallas makes grant for research at Baylor AT&T Memory Center
As the Dallas Cowboys began their
pre-season games in August, another
group of football players in the Big D
competed in an important match up
— the 9th Annual BvB Powder-Puff
Football Game to Tackle Alzheimer’s.
Hosted by BvB Dallas, the game pits
Blondes against Brunettes as a fun
way to raise money for Alzheimer’s
awareness and research. And for the
second year, BvB selected the Baylor
AT&T Memory Center as one of its
beneficiaries.
This year, BvB Dallas generously
approach first-hand: two of her family
members, one of whom recently
passed
away
because
of
complications from Alzheimer’s,
have been cared for at the AT&T
Identifying patients in the early
stages of AD increases the benefits
from available treatments.
“Baylor AT&T Memory Center was
the perfect fit for our funding as its
holistic approach to helping
Alzheimer’s patients and families fits
exactly with BvB’s mission,” said
Greer Fulton, a BvB Dallas board
member. Greer has seen Baylor’s
“A blood or urine test would be less
co-principal investigator of the study
as it had been, we came to Baylor for
an assessment,” Greer said. “Dr.
Marshall, Dr. Eric Smernoff, and their
team confirmed our fears — but did
so with grace, support and comfort.”
Currently, physicians can test for
a lumbar puncture. Both tests are
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Research Institute.
member’s memory wasn’t as sharp
“When we noticed my other family
and urinary biomarkers to detect
dementia
the Center of Metabolomics at Baylor
invasive and likely more cost efficient,”
Alzheimer’s by using PET imaging or
A l z h e i m e r ’s
investigator and Program Director for
Memory Center.
provided a $103,070 grant to support
a study that aims to find novel blood
Ph . D., the study’s principal
examining cerebral spinal fluid from
expensive and are often not covered
by insurance.
“We expect to find combinations of
biomarkers in either blood or urine
samples that are decreased or
increased in concentration that will
identify if a patient has Alzheimer’s
dementia, or if the patient is in the
early stages of memory impairment
and will go on to develop Alzheimer’s
dementia,” said Teodoro Bottiglieri,
said Claudia R. Padilla, M.D.,
and Medical Director for Research,
Baylor AT&T Memory Center. Over a
period of 18 months, the study
investigators plan to recruit 280
patients from the Baylor AT&T Memory
Center to participate in the study.
“We’re thrilled to have this project
funded,” said Cindy Marshall, M.D.,
co-principal investigator and Medical
Director of the Baylor AT&T Memory
Center. “BvB Dallas has been a
longtime supporter for Alzheimer’s
research in the community, and we’re
excited to collaborate with them.”
For more information about the
Baylor AT&T Memory Center,
contact Tim Moore at 214.820.7877
or [email protected].
BvB Dallas tackles Alzheimer's disease