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𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫-𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 🧠 Professor Marcel Verbeek of Radboudumc and Antreas Charidimou of Boston University have received a nine-million-dollar grant from the LMNA PRIORITY (Leducq Foundation) to study cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). In CAA, proteins that are also known from Alzheimer’s disease build up in the blood vessels of the brain. This can make the vessels fragile and increase the risk of brain hemorrhages. The international #TRAFFIC project aims to better understand how CAA develops, how it damages blood vessels, and how it can be detected earlier. That early detection is important, because by the time symptoms appear, the disease may already have been developing for years. The project brings together researchers from Radboudumc, Boston University, and five other international institutes. Read the full story on our website: https://lnkd.in/eAqq3v2j Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville), Harvard Medical School (Boston), Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) - Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca (Spain), Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany), and the University of Rhode Island. #BrainResearch #Stroke #Neurology #CAA #AlzheimersDisease #Radboudumc #MedicalResearch