Rutgers will open a new Alzheimer’s and dementia center this year
The new Rutgers clinic will focus on developing new treatments for people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
Rutgers will open a new center this fall focused on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research that could lead to new treatment options.
The center, in New Brunswick, is supported by a $5 million donation from Herbert C. Klein, a former congressman and Rutgers graduate whose wife died from Alzheimer’s in 2017.
“Sadly, there was really nothing that could be done to treat her,” Klein, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995, said 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, and is awaiting the approval of Rutgers’ Board of Governors.
The center will be based at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. It is expected to draw researchers from throughout the state school’s system, including the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research.
About six million Americans have Alzheimer’s, the Alzheimer’s Association reported, and the disease kills a third of American seniors.