HowardFillitMD

Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

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Office
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, 57 West 57 Street
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New York, NY 10019
Phone+1 212-901-8000

New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Fellowship, Nephrology, 1979 - 1980
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Beth IsraelResidency, Internal Medicine, 1974 - 1976
SUNY Upstate Medical UniversityClass of 1974

PubMed

734 citations
Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis
Yasser Iturria-Medina, Roberto C. Sotero, Paule-Joanne Toussaint, José María Mateos-Pérez, Alan C. Evans
Nature Communications. 2016-06-21
98 citations
The iron-binding protein lactotransferrin is present in pathologic lesions in a variety of neurodegenerative disorders: a comparative immunohistochemical analysis
B. Leveugle, Geneviève Spik, Daniel P. Perl, Constantin Bouras, Howard Fillit
Brain Research. 1994-07-04
861 citations
A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research
Story C. Landis, Susan G. Amara, Khusru Asadullah, Christopher P. Austin, Robi Blumenstein
Nature. 2012-10-11

We Finally Have New Alzheimer’s Drugs. How Do We Decide Who Gets Them?July 2023
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Personalized Neuromodulation Treatment Significantly Slowed Alzheimer’s Progression in 12-Month Phase 2 Study, Meeting Primary and Key Secondary EndpointsOctober 31st, 2024
New Multi-Marker Blood Test Enhances Alzheimer’s DetectionOctober 28th, 2024
New Multi-Marker Blood Test from Lucent Diagnostics Increases the Number of Patients Receiving Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic InformationOctober 28th, 2024
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Drug Discovery For NeurodegenerationNational Institute On Aging2007–2011
Drug Discovery For NeurodegenerationNational Institute On Aging2010
Immunobiology Of Autoimmunity To Heparan SulfateNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases1994–1997
Autoimmunity To Proteoglycans In Autoimmune DiseaseNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases1991–1993
Pilot Study -- Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans In Alzheimer'S DiseaseNational Institute On Aging1989–1993
Specificity Of Human Autoantibodies To ProteoglycansNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases1990–1992
Neuroendocrine And Neuroimmune Studies Of Alzheimers Disease And AgingNational Center For Research Resources1987–1988
Immunological Probes In Alzheimer'S DiseaseNational Center For Research Resources1985–1988
Immunological Studies In GlomerulonephritisNational Center For Research Resources1985–1986