Welcome to CNDR
The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) promotes and conducts multidisciplinary clinical and basic research studies aimed at increasing our understanding of the causes and mechanisms leading to brain dysfunction and degeneration in
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What's New?
- CNDR and Penn Researchers Show Vascular Link in Alzheimer's Disease with Cognition. More information...
- Penn Researcher and Colleagues Find Path of Plaque Buildup in Brain Shows Promise as Early Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease. More information...
- CNDR Researchers Find Shape-shifting Disease Proteins May Explain Variable Appearance of Neurodegenerative Diseases. More information...
- CNDR Researchers Find Staging System in ALS Shows Potential Tracks of Disease Progression. More information...
- CNDR's John Trojanowski Gives Presentation to the American Academy of Neurology on "Synthetic Tau Fibrils Mediate Transmission of Neurofibrillary Tangles in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer's-Like Tauopathy. View Slides and Presentation...
- CNDR's Virginia Lee Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More information...
- Penn Researcher Gerard Schellenberg and the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium Have Found Alzheimer Gene ABCA7 Significantly Increases Late-Onset Risk Among African Americans. More information...
- My Lumbar Puncture Experience Or How Preconceived Ideas About the Old “Spinal Tap” Can Affect Your Willingness to Help Research. More information...
- Penn Researchers to Lead Nation's First Program for the Study of Ethical and Policy Issues in Neurodegenerative Diseases. More information...
- Dr. Virginia Lee and CNDR Colleagues Find Transmission of Tangles in Alzheimer's Mice Provides More Authentic Model of Tau Pathology. More information...
- Remembering IOA Fellow and Colleague Christopher M. Clark, MD.
- "It's Time" - A Look at the Penn Researchers Looking for Therapies That Will Prevent, Stop, or Slow the Progression of Parkinson's Disease.
- Dr. Virginia Lee and CNDR Colleagues Find Parkinson's Disease Protein Causes Disease Spread and Neuron Death in Healthy Animals. More information...
- Alzheimer's Experts from Penn Summit Provide Strategic Roadmap to Tackle the Disease. More information...
- An Inside Look at the Research Efforts of CNDR. Download PDF...
- Catch up with the IOA on Facebook, Twitter, and more. More information...
- New Go4Life® campaign focuses on fitness for older adults. More information...
- Creative Philanthropy at Work: Jeff and Anne Keefer Funds for Parkinson's Research at Penn Medicine. More information...