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Newsletter March 2022

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2021 Annual Report: Making the unknown known

Whether it’s classifying the billions of neurons that make up our brain, tracing the lineages of our development, or understanding the detailed ins and outs of our cells, Allen Institute scientists are making the unknown known — and ultimately helping us to understand what it means to be human.

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Stories

Allen Institute’s incoming President and CEO

In December, we were delighted to announce neuroscientist Rui Costa, D.V.M., Ph.D., as our next president and chief executive officer. Costa comes to the Allen Institute from the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University in New York, where he has served as CEO since 2017.

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Events

Understanding the Cellular Roots of Alzheimer’s Disease
March 9, 2022

David Thaller

Join us for a public webinar on the challenges physicians face in treating Alzheimer’s disease, what happens to the brain in patients with Alzheimer’s, and current research on cell types in healthy and diseased human brains. This event is geared towards the general public and the presenters will assume no prior knowledge of the neuroscience of Alzheimer’s or cell types.

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Allen Frontiers Symposium
March 29, 2022

David Thaller

Could we detect diseases like Alzheimer’s and ALS years or decades before they manifest outward signs? How does aging leave its mark on our genomes? How do the immune system and metabolism affect each other? Hear from Allen Distinguished Investigators working on these and other areas of human biology at the Allen Frontiers Symposium.

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