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A Conversation with Alector’s Vice President of Clinical Development
Earlier this year, the biopharmaceutical company Alector announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted a “breakthrough therapy designation” to latozinemab, the company’s investigational drug designed to…
Protected: A Conversation with Alector’s Vice President of Clinical Development
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AC Immune and Life Molecular Imaging Announce FDA Fast Track Designation for Tau PET Tracer
Swiss biopharmaceutical company AC Immune announced in late August that its partner, German biopharmaceutical company Life Molecular Imaging (LMI), received a Fast Track Designation from the US Food and Drug…
Emma Heming Willis Shares Her FTD Experience and Advocacy Work in “Town & Country” Magazine
Emma Heming Willis spoke with journalist Katie Couric about her journey as an FTD care partner, as well as her advocacy for FTD legislation and research following the diagnosis of…
Protected: Empower a Future Free of FTD with a Year-End Gift
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Advancing Hope: AFTD Attends Tau Consortium Investigators Meeting
Members of the AFTD staff, along with several funding partner organizations, gathered with the world’s top scientists studying tauopathies for the 2024 Tau Consortium Investigators Meeting (TCIM) this September in…
Tips and Advice: Understanding Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory Grief
Andy Atwood, a retired psychotherapist and clergyman, knows about grief. In addition to working as a grief counselor, he experienced grief firsthand after the 2021 death of his beloved younger…
Young Woman Tells Her Family’s FTD Story on Philadelphia News Segment
FTD care partner Hannah Clarke was interviewed on October 15 for a segment on Good Day Philadelphia about her experiences caring for her mother, Claudine, who is living with an…
Study Finds Suicidal Thoughts Likelier in People with Dementia, Calls for Better Supports
A study conducted by researchers at University College London (UCL) published in the journal Ageing Research Reviews finds that people diagnosed with dementia have a higher chance of experiencing suicidal…
AFTD Ambassador Shares Her Family’s FTD Story with Massachusetts Newspaper
Dawn O’Gara, an ATD Ambassador, spoke about her beloved father’s FTD diagnosis and how it spurred her activism in an article published in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette on October…