MIT 24-Hour Challenge 2024 presents:
Aging Brain Initiative
New Thinking for the Aging Brain
391 donors
raised $69,543
300 donor goal
About This Microchallenge
Thanks to renewed challenge gifts from Glenda Mattes and Steve Corbin, in memory of the late MIT alum Donald Mattes ’67, SM ’69, the family of Priscilla King Gray and former MIT President Dr. Paul E. Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60, (Virginia and Tom Army, Amy and Dave Sluyter, Andrew and Yuki Gray, Weezie and Tim Huyck, and all their children) and another philanthropic family, if 300 donors give to the Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) on March 14, these generous donors will make a combined gift of $30,000.
About the Aging Brain Initiative
Dementias of aging affect 46 million people and families worldwide, with the numbers poised to double every 20 years. There is still no cure. MIT’s response, the Aging Brain Initiative (ABI), galvanizes a powerful collaboration across MIT to pursue innovative research that produces new insights, potential therapies, and technologies. The ABI is distinguished both by its systems-wide approach to neurodegenerative disease and achieving practical results, such as our GENUS light and sound therapy that has shown encouraging improvements in early Alzheimer’s patients in Phase 2 trials. For more information and many more examples, see our 2023 ABI Newsletter.
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