The Mainz researcher Bernd Moosmann has received a valuable award for a new approach to explaining Alzheimer's disease.
The University of Texas awarded the Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Mainz with an Oskar Fischer Silver Award.
The award comes with $400,000.
Moosmann has hypothesized that Alzheimer's is the result of disrupted signal transmission between nerve cells.
The brain tries to compensate for this disorder, but this is unsuccessful and leads to the formation of protein deposits on the cells that are typical of the disease.
According to the University of Mainz, Moosmann and his team analyzed hereditary and non-hereditary forms of Alzheimer's and came to the conclusion that it was ultimately the same phenomenon.
The Oskar Fischer Prize is named after the co-discoverer of the disease and was donated by an American entrepreneur to recognize novel theories about Alzheimer's.