Alzheimer’s Research Center Receives $1.5 Million to Launch Physician-Scientist Program
December 11, 2025
The Rutgers Krieger Klein Alzheimer's Research Center has received a $1.5 million philanthropic gift from the Norman and Mary Pattiz Foundation to establish a physician-scientist research program.
The program, led by Michal Schnaider Beeri, director of the Herbert and Jacqueline Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center in the Rutgers Brain Health Institute and Core Member of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, is designed to accelerate translation from discovery to treatment in dementia.
The program will train physician-scientists to focus on new drug development and early disease detection when intervention has the greatest potential to alter long-term outcomes. By advancing innovative patient-focused research, Rutgers Health physician-scientists involved in the program aim to strengthen the dementia research ecosystem and improve treatment for individuals at risk or with Alzheimer’s disease in New Jersey and throughout the United States.