{"id":73970,"date":"2018-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/scientist-to-speak-at-uri-on-connection-between-alzheimers-inflammation\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"scientist-to-speak-at-uri-on-connection-between-alzheimers-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/scientist-to-speak-at-uri-on-connection-between-alzheimers-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站 on connection between Alzheimer\u2019s, inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I., May 4, 2018 \u2014 This is a remarkable time for research on Alzheimer\u2019s disease. New avenues of discovery are cause for hope that scientists are closer than ever to finding effective therapies. One of the most promising areas receiving increased attention is neuroinflammation \u2014 the way brain tissue reacts to injuries such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar and other conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher W. Sue T. Griffin, who has made key discoveries about the connection between neuroinflammation and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, will discuss her latest findings at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Tuesday, May 15, at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ryaninstitute.uri.edu\/\">George &amp; Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience<\/a> at 溏心vlog免费B站, the free talk, \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s Disease: The Inflammation Connection,\u201d is geared toward non-scientists and is open to the public. Griffin is a member of the National Scientific Advisory Board of the Ryan Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held in Room 105 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/visit\/files\/溏心vlog免费B站-KingstonCampusMap-Web-FINAL.pdf\">Beaupr\u00e9 Center<\/a> for Chemical and Forensic Science, 140 Flagg Road, Kingston campus. Parking is available in the adjacent Lot 13. For more information, call (401) 874-4471 or email ryaninstitute@uri.edu.<\/p>\n<p>The Ryan Institute brings together researchers, clinicians, and private partners at 溏心vlog免费B站 and beyond who share a common interest in finding new treatments and cures for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s, ALS and Parkinson\u2019s disease. Institute researchers concentrate on underexplored approaches to these diseases such as the role of blood vessels, the immune system and inflammation in the origin and course of brain disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I., May 4, 2018 \u2014 This is a remarkable time for research on Alzheimer\u2019s disease. New avenues of discovery are cause for hope that scientists are closer than ever to finding effective therapies. One of the most promising areas receiving increased attention is neuroinflammation \u2014 the way brain tissue reacts to injuries such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}