Hascup Lab for Alzheimer's Research

Your gift will help the Hascup Lab research how to better treat and prevent Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

SIU Medicine leaders, Drs. Erin and Kevin Hascup, are conducting crucial research focused on a greater understanding and avenues of intervention for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, neurodegenerative diseases and disorders, and aging. Your support goes to funding the following types of research:

• Understanding how the brain changes throughout Alzheimer’s disease progression in order to identify disease-stage specific therapies.
• Identifying drugs that restore communication pathways in the brain to prevent or alleviate memory loss.
• Testing drugs that boost the natural defense cells in the brain to clear away harmful proteins, thereby improving thinking and memory.
• Connecting how a hyperactive inflammatory response and aging cells alter brain communication leading to worsening of memory in Alzheimer’s disease.
• Determining how the way military veterans' live, either helps or hinders their brain function as they age.
• Recognizing biological differences among sex and race that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease progression to better tailor personalized care for improved outcomes.
• Identifying factors that slow the rate of biological aging thereby delaying or preventing the onset of dementia.