July 8, 2020
National Public Radio’s online article covers the aired interview with J. Paul Taylor, MD. PhD, in which he described the research that earned him the 2020 Potamkin Prize.
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NPR’s All Things Considered discusses the groundbreaking discoveries of J. Paul Taylor, MD. PhD, the recipient of the 2020 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMay 1, 2020
Alzforum, a news and information resource for Alzheimer’s disease researchers, shares the announcement that J. Paul Taylor, MD. PhD is the recipient of the 2020 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 30, 2020
Read the press release for the 2020 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to J. Paul Taylor, MD. PhD, of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
View ArticleApril 29, 2020
The Daily Memphian announces that the 2020 Potamkin Prize has been awarded to J. Paul Taylor, MD. PhD, of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
View ArticleOctober 21, 2019
University of California San Francisco announces that faculty member Kristine Yaffe, MD, a recipient of the 2017 Potamkin Prize, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
View ArticleOctober 15, 2019
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announces the Grand Champions of their annual Celebrating Senior Champions dinner will be William E. Klunk, MD, PhD, and Chester A. Mathis, PhD, recipients of the 2008 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleAugust 22, 2019
NeurologyToday profiles of Randall J. Bateman, MC, the recipient of the 2019 Potamkin Prize. Dr. Bateman discusses his path to Alzheimer’s research, and looks ahead to the future of his projects.
View ArticleAugust 12, 2019
Alector, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering immuno-neurology, a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, announces that Kristine Yaffe, MD, a recipient of the 2017 Potamkin Prize, has been appointed to the company’s board of directors.
View ArticleApril 1, 2019
The American Federation for Aging Research congratulates its grantee Randall Bateman, MD for being the recipient of the 2019 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 27, 2019
BioSpace reports on St. Louis, Missouri as one of the fastest-growing life sciences markets in the U.S., citing the Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Dr. Bateman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, as important recent St. Louis life science news.
View ArticleMarch 25, 2019
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch announces that the 2019 Potamkin Prize has been awarded to Randall Bateman, MD at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
View ArticleMarch 22, 2019
Alzforum, a news and information resource for Alzheimer’s disease researchers, shares the announcement that Randall Bateman, MD is the recipient of the 2019 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 20, 2019
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announces that their very own Dr. Randall J. Bateman, MD has been awarded the 2019 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 20, 2019
Read the press release for the 2019 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Randall J. Bateman, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO.
View ArticleMarch 16, 2018
Alzforum, a news and information resource for Alzheimer’s disease researchers, shares the announcement that David A. Bennett, MD is the recipient of the 2018 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 10, 2015
Read the press release for the 2015 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Peter Davies, PhD, of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, NY, and Reisa A. Sperling, MD, of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. View Article
March 7, 2018
Read the press release for the 2018 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to David A. Bennett, MD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Dr. Bennett’s team has enrolled nearly 3,500 older people into studies on memory loss funded by the National Institutes of Health.
View ArticleMarch 6, 2018
Rush University announces that its very own David A. Bennett, MD, is the recipient of the 2018 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleDecember 12, 2017
The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announces that David Holtzman, MD, has been named a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors class of 2017.
View ArticleJuly 17, 2017
The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference announces that the Zaven Khachaturian Award will be presented to William E. Klunk, MD, PhD, a recipient of the 2008 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 28, 2017
The Women In Academia Report celebrated the recipients of the 2017 Potamkin Prize, Claudia Kawas, MD, and Kristine Yaffe, MD,.
View ArticleApril 19, 2017
The University of California Irving announces that their very own Dr. Claudia Kawas has been awarded the 2017 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 23, 2017
The University of California San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences Department of Psychiatry announces that UCSF researcher Kristine Yaffe, MD, is a recipient of the 2017 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 23, 2017
Read the press release for the 2017 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Claudia Kawas, MD, of the University of California, Irvine, and Kristine Yaffe, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco. Both are recognized for their research on the epidemiology of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
View ArticleJanuary 4, 2017
Alzheon, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new medicines for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological and psychiatric disorders, announces that Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, the recipient of the 1991 Potamkin Prize, has been appointed Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the company.
View ArticleSeptember 8, 2016
The Mayo Clinic Alumni Association announces that its very own Rosa Rademakers, PhD, is a recipient of the 2016 Potamkin Prize. Dr. Rademakers is the fifth researcher from Mayo Clinic to receive the Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJune 14, 2016
The American Association of Neuropathologists bestows the Award for Meritorious Contributions to Neuropathology, its highest honor, on Dennis W. Dickson, MD, the recipient of the 2011 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 20, 2016
Alzforum, a news and information resource for Alzheimer’s disease researchers, announces that Rosa Rademakers, PhD and Bryan Traynor, MD, PhD will share the 2016 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 18, 2016
The Maryland Daily Record announces that Bryan Traynor, Md, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland is a recipient of the 2016 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 16, 2016
The Florida Times-Union profiles Rosa Rademakers, PhD, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville and a recipient of the 2016 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 15, 2016
Read the press release for the 2016 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Rosa Rademakers, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, and Bryan Traynor, Md, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Rademakers and Traynor, independently of each other, discovered a mutation in a gene on chromosome 9 called the C9ORF72 gene.
View ArticleApril 5, 2016
The Mayo Clinic announces that its very own Rosa Rademakers, PhD, is a recipient of the 2016 Potamkin Prize. A video profile of Dr. Rademakers accompanies the announcement.
View ArticleApril 24, 2015
Alzforum, a news and information resource for Alzheimer’s disease researchers, announces that Peter Davies, PhD and Reisa Sperling, MD will share the 2015 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleOctober 28, 2014
A video on the Potamkin Prize by the American Academy of Neurology describes the Potamkin Prize as “probably the highest honor for recognizing research in Alzheimer’s disease.”
View ArticleApril 11, 2014
The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health announces that Dr. M. Marsel Mesulam, MD is the recipient of the 2014 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 26, 2014
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine announces that its very own M. Marsel Mesulam, MD, director of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, is the recipient of the 2014 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 26, 2014
Read the press release for the 2014 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to M.-Marsel Mesulam, MD, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Mesulam’s findings on the tissue abnormality of primary progressive aphasia, a disease that impairs access to words rather than memories, and offers new insights into Alzheimer’s disease.
View ArticleMarch 13, 2013
The San Francisco VA Medical Center announced that its very own Michael Weiner, MD, is a recipient of the 2013 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJanuary 28, 2013
The Berkley Lab announced that its very own William Jagust, MD, a faculty senior scientist in the Life Sciences Division who also has appointments at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, is a recipient of the 2013 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJanuary 24, 2013
Jewish News congratulates Eric M. Reiman, MD, on being a recipient of the 2013 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJanuary 24, 2013
Read the press release for the 2013 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to William J. Jagust, MD, of the University of California, Berkeley,CA, Michael W. Weiner, MD, of the San Francisco VA Medical Center in San Francisco, CA, and Eric M. Reiman, MD, of Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, AZ.
View ArticleFebruary 26, 2012
Alzforum, a news and information resource for Alzheimer’s disease researchers, shares the announcement that Takeshi Iwatsubo, MD is the recipient of the 2012 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleFebruary 21, 2012
Read the press release for the 2012 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Takeshi Iwatsubo, MD, PhD, of the University of Tokyo School of Medicine. Dr. Iwatsubo leads the Japanese Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Project to discover imaging and biochemical markers that are useful in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease treatments.
View ArticleApril 15, 2011
The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases announces that its very own Drs. Eva-Maria and Eckhard Mandelkow, who also research at the Max Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology, are recipients of the 2011 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleApril 15, 2011
Innovations Report announces that Eva Maria Mandelkow, MD, PhD, and Exkhard Mandelkow, PhD, both of the Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology in Hamburg, Germany, are recipients of the 2011 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleMarch 7, 2011
The Jacksonville Daily Record announces that Dennis Dickson, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, is a recipient of the 2011 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleFebruary 17, 2011
Read the press release for the 2011 Potamkin Prize, which was awarded to Dennis Dickson, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, Eva Maria Mandelkow, MD, PhD, and Exkhard Mandelkow, PhD, both of the Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology in Hamburg, Germany.
View ArticleApril 15, 2009
The University of Rochester Medical Center announces that its very own Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative and Vascular Brain Disorders, is a recipient of the 2009 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJuly 30, 2008
The Alzheimer’s Association bestows the Award for Lifetime Achievement in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
View ArticleApril 27, 2008
The University of Pittzburgh announces that its very own William E. Klunk, MD, PhD and Chester A. Mathis, PhD are recipients of the 2008 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleSummer 2005
Brain & Life publishes a profile of the Potamkin Prize, detailing the family history of the prize, which was inspired by Luba Potamkin, who passed away in 1994 of Pick’s disease. The article also details the 2005 recipients of the Potamkin Prize: John C. Morris, MD and Ronald C. Petersen, PhD, MD.
View ArticleMay 2, 2000
The University of Cambridge announces that its very own Maria Grazia Spillantini, PhD, is a recipient of the 2000 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJune 4, 1998
The Daily Pennsylvanian announces that Virginia Man-Ye Lee, PhD, and John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, both of the University of Pennsylvania, are recipients of the 1998 Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleFebruary 25, 1988
The LA Times announces that Robert D. Terry, MD, of University of California, San Diego, is the recipient of the 1988, and first annual, Potamkin Prize.
View ArticleJune 18, 1987
The New York Times covered the beginning of the Potamkin Prize.
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