Dorothee Dormann, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, receives the Alzheimer Research Prize from the Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation in Frankfurt.

The award is endowed with 280,000 euros, which Dormann can use for scientific work in her institute.

Born in 1976, the scientist is studying a protein called TDP-43, which plays a role in both Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS.

Sascha Zoske

Journalist in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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If TDP-43 interacts with the so-called tau protein, which is also deposited in the brain of Alzheimer's patients, the disease is particularly difficult.

Dormann and her team want to better understand the interactions between Tau and TDP-43 in order to find new approaches for the treatment of Alzheimer's and related diseases.

Dormann has already received several awards for her work, including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Young Talent Prize and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation.

The Frankfurt-based Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation aims to improve the living conditions of dementia patients and their relatives.

It also promotes research on dementia with prizes and grants.