The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America recently presented NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island with a $300,000 check to fund innovative Alzheimer’s research in hope of finding a cure for the disease.

The team, led by Dr. Allison Reiss, is examining genetic information in brain cells to find the cause of Alzheimer’s disease with the goal of reprogramming them to behave like healthy cells.

The team’s mission is to develop treatments to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s or prevent it entirely by comparing Alzheimer’s neurons with those of healthy people.

Pictured (left to right): Dr. Steven E. Carsons, professor of Medicine and senior associate Dean for Research, NYU Long Island School of Medicine; Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr., AFA’s President and CEO; Dr. Aaron Pinkhasov, chair, Department Of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island and Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, NYU Long Island School of Medicine; Dr. Allison B. Reiss, associate professor, Departments of Medicine and Foundations of Medicine, NYU Long Island School of Medicine and Head, Inflammation Laboratory, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island Research Institute; Dr. Joshua De Leon, associate professor, Department of Medicine, NYU Long Island School of Medicine; Bert E. Brodsky, AFA’s Founder and Chairman of the Board; Dr. Irving H. Gomolin, Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine, NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island and Professor of Medicine, NYU Long Island School of Medicine