Named for the surprising side effect of developing Alzheimer's disease in worms. In humans, Alzheimer's kills neurons important for memory. In worms, it kills neurons important for laying eggs. Without these neurons, babies hatch inside their moms. By encouraging your friends to donate $10 with your own donation will combine to make big impact in Alzheimer's research.

Named for the aggregates of toxic peptides in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, a $25 gift paves the way towards our successful undergraduate research training program.

Named for the street by our research lab in the Neuromolecular Science lab, $50 provides enough support for undergraduates to purchase essential supplies such as pipettes and Petri dishes for Alzheimer's experiments.

Named after the café where our students caffeinate for morning and late night experiments. $100 provides funds to test 50 new drugs to test on our Alzheimer's model.

Named for our beloved mascot, $250 provides critical reagents used to study the difference between peptides in vulnerable and resistant neurons in Alzheimer's disease. Donors will receive an easy-to-understand update on current Alzheimer's disease research.

Named for the connections between neurons that become dysfunctional in Alzheimer's disease, $500 provides a full month of summer salary support to one undergraduate student to conduct research. Donors will be invited to receive a personal tour of our lab to see research in action.

Named for the remarkable researcher Alois Alzheimer's, who first characterized the disease in 1906, $1000 provides salary support for an undergraduate students as well as our Research Associate to provide expert training in Alzheimer's research. Donors will be invited to receive a personal tour of our lab to see research in action, and will receive an easy-to-understand update on current Alzheimer's disease research.

Named for the major risk factor in Alzheimer's disease, a $2000 donation would provide a full summer worth of salary for an undergraduate for research training. Donors at this level will be invited to receive a personal tour of our lab to see research in action, will receive an easy-to-understand update on current Alzheimer's disease research, and will get to try some Alzheimer's disease experiments themselves as "researcher for an afternoon".

Generous donations at this $5000 level will allow undergrads in our lab to complete a screen for new drugs that may stop the death of neurons caused by toxic Alzheimer's proteins. Donors at this level will be invited to receive a personal tour of our lab to see research in action, will receive an easy-to-understand update on current Alzheimer's disease research, and will get to try some Alzheimer's disease experiments themselves as "researcher for an afternoon". Moreover, they will have a gene named after them that when mutated reduces Alzheimer's risk.