NWHIC Organizations Directory -- Record Details

Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

Mission statement:

At the Cold Spring Harbor meeting, The Dana Alliance members set 10 objectives in brain research that they considered attainable by the Year 2000. The 10 objectives are: 1.The identification of the genes that are defective in familial Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. 2.The identification of the genes responsible for hereditary forms of manic-depressive illness. 3.The development of new medications and therapeutic strategies to reduce nerve cell death and enhance recovery of function after strokes and other forms of brain injury. 4.The development of new drugs and other measures to alleviate the effects of multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, motor neuron disease (e.g. ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. 5.The identification of new treatments to promote nerve regeneration following spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury. 6.The development of new and more effective treatments for manic-depressive illness, anxiety disorders, and forms of schizophrenia that at present resist treatment. 7.The discovery, testing and application of agents that will block the action of cocaine, and other addictive substances. 8.The development of new treatments for pain associated with cancer, arthritis, migraine headaches, and other debilitating illnesses. 9.The identification of the genes that cause hereditary deafness and blindness. 10.The elucidation of the neuronal mechanism involved in learning and memory.

Contact Information:

Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives
745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 900
New York NY 10151

Internet address: http://www.dana.org

Phone number(s):

(212) 223-4040

Fax number:

(212) 317-8721

Related topics:

These topics may help you find additional organizations. Click any of these links to do an automatic search.

• ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
• DISABILITIES
• NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS
• RESEARCH

NWHIC record number O-2901