Daily News | Rutgers will open a new Alzheimer’s and dementia clinic this year
Rutgers will open a new clinic this fall focused on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research that could lead toThe clinic is supported by a $5 million donation from Herbert C. Klein, a former U.S. congressman and Rutgers graduate whose wife died from Alzheimer’s in 2017.
“Sadly, there was really nothing that could be done to treat her,” said Klein, who served in Congress between 1993 and 1995, in a statement. “The work by this center will have a tremendous effect in this fight.” The gift will fund equipment and personnel, and the Jacqueline Krieger Klein Endowed Director’s Chair in Neurodegeneration Research, which will direct the center. Michal Beeri, a professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, has been nominated to be chair,The clinic will be based at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research in New Brunswick.
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