Verona University researcher
Gabriela Constantin is the recipient of a 2.5-million-euro
European Research Council (ERC) grant for advanced research into
into Alzheimer's disease, sources said Thursday.
She will focus on understanding the role of white blood
cells in the chronic and fatal neurodegenerative disease that
has no known cure.
This is the third such ERC grant Constantin has received in
the past five years.
In 2003, Constantin was the first woman in Italy to receive
the Rita Levi Montalcini Prize for her studies of brain
inflammatory diseases. The ERC named her an "outstanding female
scientist" in 2010.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia and
affects over 40 million people worldwide, one million of them in
Italy. It is estimated it will affect 66 million by 2030, and
115 million by 2050.
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