#  Joseph F. Arboleda-Velásquez, MD, PhD, Receives $4 Million Research Gift 

 





September 29, 2020

 

 

   ![Dr. Joseph F. Arboleda-Velásquez in his laboratory](/sites/g/files/omnuum9886/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/eye/files/joe_arboleda_image_for_linkedin.png?itok=PVImQxIH) 

 

 [Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, MD, PhD](/josepharboleda), an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and assistant scientist at Mass Eye and Ear who studies small vessel disease in the brain and the eye, has been awarded a five-year, $4 million gift from Good Ventures to spur his lab’s groundbreaking work into Alzheimer’s disease genetic resistance.

 This transformational gift will enable Dr. Arboleda-Velásquez to build upon the recent discovery of a genetic mutation that protected in a woman who had a high familial risk for the condition and amyloid plaque deposits in her brain against early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

 The gift funds will support two research projects that aim to:

- Examine the function of a protective genetic variant described in a woman with high familial risk for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, but who has not yet developed the condition
- Discover new genes and biological markers potentially associated with resistance to Alzheimer’s in the world’s largest population of familial Alzheimer’s in Colombia

 [Read the full press release](https://masseyeandear.org/news/press-releases/2020/09/mass-eye-and-ear-receives-gift-for-alzheimers-disease-genetic-resistance-research?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=MassEyeAndEar)



 

 

 



 

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