Word: hcnr
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Although she has never climbed a mountain higher than 4,000 feet, next summer 50-year-old Valerie S. McDyer plans to trek 19,500 feet up Mt. Kilimanjaro to fundraise for the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR...
...HCNR is a non-profit organization that supports research of diseases that impair normal brain function, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis...
McDyer’s experience highlights the Harvard-based center’s purpose, says Adrian J. Ivinson, the director of HCNR...
...present, HCNR has a sufficient operating budget, Ivinson says, but the vast majority of its funds originate from a single anonymous donor who gave $37.5 million to jumpstart the organization...
...funds that HCNR will gain from McDyer’s climb are not only helpful for their programs, but essential for the future of biomedical research in neuroscience...