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...slew of promising results from drug trials, a new understanding of how the neurological disease works and insights into the way social and lifestyle factors may affect its progression. "On the one hand, Alzheimer's disease is a complex pathologic process, and that is daunting," says Dr. Ronald Petersen, chair of the Alzheimer's Association's medical and scientific advisory council and director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. "But now we are beginning to segregate out different therapeutic targets and develop drugs that have an impact on each target, so in combination they may handle...
...future approaches won't stop with drug treatments. Petersen notes that researchers are also forging ahead with innovative screening tests to identify Alzheimer's patients sooner - before too much deterioration occurs in the brain. Better screens could also potentially identify patients by the specific type of brain buildup - plaques vs. tangles - that is causing them the most severe problems. That kind of triage early on could help doctors target the right patients with the most effective therapies...
...After about two weeks of closed-door negotiations between Pilbeam and then-President of the UC Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the College unfroze the funds, and provided the Council with $100,000 as a show of good faith. And on Nov. 6, a joint e-mail statement from Petersen and Pilbeam announced that the party grant system would continue through the end of the semester, but would no longer reimburse alcohol...
...University President Drew G. Faust’s installation, then-Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 boldly proclaimed: “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must end now.” His aggressive rhetoric epitomized the conflict between undergraduates and the College that characterized so many of the major issues in student life this year.While antagonism may have been an overarching theme of the student-College relationship this year, there were many notable exceptions, as progress generally followed communication and compromise. Significant strides...
...online student referendum called by Petersen, 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduate votes cast were in favor of the proposal, and on June 6, Interim President Derek C. Bok announced that a University-wide calendar reform had been approved by Harvard’s governing boards. Petersen told The Crimson last year, “The undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council identified a problem and sought to address it, and the governing boards took our concerns seriously...