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New hope for old disease

Doctors may soon be able to predict, prevent Alzheimer’s disease

by Tamara Bhandari•January 15, 2019

Randall J. Bateman, MD, examines Taylor Hutton, a participant in a global multicenter study testing drugs that may delay or prevent Alzheimer’s onset.

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Tamara Bhandari

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Tamara covers pathology & immunology, medical microbiology, infectious diseases, cell biology, neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery and radiology. She holds a double bachelor's degree in molecular biophysics & biochemistry and in sociology from Yale University, a master's in public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in biomedical science from the University of California, San Diego. Tamara worked in research labs for about a decade before switching to science writing. She joined WashU Medicine Marketing & Communications in 2016. She has received two Robert G. Fenley writing awards from the American Association of Medical Colleges. In 2020, she won a bronze for "Mind’s quality control center found in long-ignored brain area" and in 2022 a silver for "Mice with hallucination-like behaviors reveal insight into psychotic illness."

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