Roberta Marongiu, PhD, has been awarded a two-year, $275,000 NIH-NIA R21 grant and an additional $125,000 administrative supplement to the NIH-NIA R21 to study the effects of menopause on the development of Alzheimer’s disease. The pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (amyloid β, neurofibrillary tangles, synaptic and neuronal loss, and chronic gliosis) are laid down starting 20 years before clinical symptoms appear, at about the time of perimenopause in women. Yet very little is...