Dr. Mi Hee Lim
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
Research, funded in part by a $60,000 grant from the AAQI, has helped scientists at the University of Michigan understand more about Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Mi Hee Lim and an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the Life Sciences Institute and the Departments of Chemistry, and Biophysics have been working with a molecule found in green tea known as EGCG. They recreated the molecule in the lab and found that it prevented the mis-folding of proteins found in the Alzheimer’s disease brain, specifically metal-associated amyloid-beta. It also broke down existing amyloid plaques in the brain, the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. This information could eventually lead to a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Results of the University of Michigan study were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (www.AlzQuilts.org) derives most of its revenue for research from the sale of donated quilts. To date, that’s more than $904,000. If you have threaded your needle or opened your wallet for the AAQI, you have made a difference. If you haven’t, it’s not too late to contribute by making a quilt, purchasing one, or making a monetary donation.
While 2013 is the AAQI’s last year to receive quilt donations (the deadline to donate a quilt is August 1st) and the last year to sell quilts, we are not winding down, we are gearing up! We are sprinting all the way to the end of 2013 when we hope to break the ONE MILLION DOLLAR mark in funds raised for research.
The AAQI has been invited back to International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX (October 30-November 3) .
This single event is our only “in person” sale. In four and a half days, we can sell almost as many quilts as we sell during the entire year online!
Last year we sold 2,185 quilts for a whopping $75,000. We don’t have that many quilts in stock for the 2013 sale…..YET!
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Ami Simms
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Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!
