On May 15, Yueming Li, PhD, of Sloan-Kettering Institute and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Lennart Mucke, MD, of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and University of California, San Francisco, received the 2013 MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in recognition of their outstanding work on Alzheimer’s disease. Representatives from the press, foundation, medical, and research communities attended the award ceremony, which included a research briefing and a keynote address from health and science journalist, Dr. Max Gomez. Dr. Gomez spoke movingly about the impact on Alzheimer’s disease on families. For 27 years, the MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research have recognized the most accomplished researchers contributing to the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. You can read more about Drs. Li and Mucke’s important work here.
