The speaker, Rudolph Tanzy is director of the Genetics & Aging Research Unit at Mass General's Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, working with some 200 other researchers, several hundred mice, and his wife, Dora Kovacs, who studies the role of inflammation in Alzheimer's.
Tests on Alzheimers transgenic mouse models with prospective new Alzheimers drugs have already demonstrated 30% life extension.