Prize Award 2017

Detecting Alzeimher’s pathology before memory decline using new radiopharmaceuticals
The lesions of Alzheimer’s disease accumulate in the brain at least a decade before memory start declining. Until recently, these lesions could only be observed after autopsy. The development of specific radio-pharmaceuticals used with PET-scans now allow visualizing Alzheimer’s lesions in the brain of normal older adults, opening new research avenues including the possibility of testing preventive therapies.