{"id":1385,"date":"2023-10-27T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2023-10-27T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:48:28","slug":"new-research-could-be-key-in-unlocking-better-treatment-for-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/new-research-could-be-key-in-unlocking-better-treatment-for-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"New research could be key in unlocking better treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still many unknowns surrounding Alzheimer\u2019s disease, including just how it progresses. But a Northeastern professor is planning on studying the molecular mechanisms of the disease in hopes of understanding how it spreads, which could open avenues for better treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lee Makowski, chair of Northeastern University\u2019s Bioengineering Department, received a grant from the NIH to study the changes to the molecular structure of the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that grow throughout the brain over the course of the disease.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1386\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1386\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/neu_bz611r364-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/neu_bz611r364-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/neu_bz611r364-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/neu_bz611r364-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/neu_bz611r364.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Makowski, bioengineering department chair, secured a grant to investigate alterations in the molecular structure of Alzheimer\u2019s disease-related amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Photo by Matthew Modoono\/Northeastern University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still many unknowns surrounding Alzheimer\u2019s disease, including just how it progresses. But a Northeastern professor is planning on studying the molecular mechanisms of the disease in hopes of understanding how it spreads, which could open avenues for better treatment. Professor Lee Makowski, chair of Northeastern University\u2019s Bioengineering Department, received a grant from the NIH &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/new-research-could-be-key-in-unlocking-better-treatment-for-alzheimers\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-success","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}