03/01/2026 -9:00 AM –Schweitzer Room, or on-line

A Discussion of Alzheimer’s Disease

Speaker: Long-time congregation member Nicholas Izzo, Ph.D. is a research biologist with expertise in cell-based assay development and drug discovery.
Nick earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Virginia. He conducted post-doctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Nick’s talk will include:
– a brief intro to what Alzheimer’s is and what
the main players are believed to be in the pathology.
– the latest on what drugs have been approved, and a simple description of how
they work, vis-a-vis the main players, above, and how well (or how poorly) they work with a look at the key data from clinical trials;
– a 40,000 ft view of what drugs are in the development pipeline and the broad categories they belong to;
– a short touch on what he has worked on;
– some recent findings of things that we can do to lower our risk of developing dementia.