June 21, 2010 — Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute Names West Virginia Health Innovator as Director of the Alzheimer’s Outreach and Registry Program Helen Matheny, former CEO of WV Medical Foundation Joins Cutting Edge Public Education Program   ...

June 14, 2010 — Morgantown, WV, June 14, 2010 – The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) announced the appointment of Shana Phares as Chief Executive Officer today. Phares joins BRNI’s team of renowned medical and health care specialists working to...

December 8, 2009 — Robert Bragg to Lead Private Charitable Fundraising for Institute Morgantown, WV (December 8, 2009) – The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) announced that Robert Bragg has been hired to serve as its new development director....

September 2, 2009 — Agreement Will Advance Research Connecting Brain Injuries to Neurological Disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease   Morgantown, WV (September 2, 2009) – The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) announced today an agreement with a group...

May 27, 2009 — Morgantown, WV (May 27, 2009) – The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) and Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (Inverness, NYSE:IMA) of Waltham, Massachusetts, a global leader in rapid diagnostics and health management, announced...

April 22, 2009 — Morgantown, WV - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) the go-ahead to conduct Phase II clinical trials of Bryostatin for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease patients. The drug showed...

October 16, 2008 — WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS CONVENE TO SHARE GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH ON ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, MEMORY AND AGING Morgantown, W.Va. — Today, the new $30 million Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) research headquarters located on the...

August 26, 2008 — Pioneering Neurosciences Institute sets date for Dedication of New Facility and First-Ever International Forum on Memory and Memory Disorders Morgantown, W.Va. — On October 16th, 2008, the new $30 million Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences...

December 4, 2007 — Family of Drugs Could Repair Brain Damage and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease Morgantown, W.Va. – Scientists at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) have discovered that a cancer drug – Bryostatin – enhances the formation of new...

October 15, 2007 — Morgantown, W.Va. – Researchers, caregivers and community members gathered at the Hotel Morgan, Sunday, Oct. 14, for “Morgantown Muse,” a community arts event benefiting the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI). “We are making...

May 22, 2007 — Morgantown, W.Va. -- Researchers at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute have patented a new way of safely transporting medicine across the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is a group of cells that line the brain's...

April 23, 2007 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va – Senator Jay Rockefeller led a tour through the construction site of The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute this morning. BRNI, founded by U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, is an independent research center dedicated to...

December 7, 2006 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Topping Off: Construction workers raise the last steel beam into place on the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) on the West Virginia University campus, Morgantown. The $30 million project will house...

August 14, 2006 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A painless skin test for Alzheimer’s disease? It may seem unlikely, but scientists at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) have isolated a substance in skin cells that may provide doctors with a quick and...

May 18, 2006 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Several prominent Alzheimer's disease researchers will share their insights with the medical community, researchers and the public in the first scientific seminar organized by the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI)...

April 3, 2006 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin IV gave final approval Monday (April 3) to a bill that creates a state Alzheimer's disease registry at West Virginia University. "With this legislation, West Virginia takes the lead in...

March 30, 2006 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Mice can be genetically engineered to remember a hidden platform in a water maze for several weeks. Scientists from the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) have located a gene that is a powerful regulator of...

October 24, 2005 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — New research, to be published the week of Oct. 24 in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that bryostatin may stimulate the production of proteins essential for long-term memory. ...

June 13, 2005 — HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Susie Frum Jimison of Huntington, W.Va., cared for four relatives - including her husband - as they suffered the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. When she died early last year, she left more than $2 million in her will to support...

June 10, 2005 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Senator and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller IV will host the Annual Gala of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute June 25 at the Charleston Embassy Suites hotel. John Beilein, coach of West Virginia University's basketball...

December 31, 2004 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Julius Axelrod, Ph.D. one of the great neuroscientists of the 20th century, and a distinguished member of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute Scientific Advisory Board passed away on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at his...

November 30, 2004 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Two new drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease, developed at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI), have won patent protection and could be available for testing by volunteer patients in the next several months....

November 8, 2004 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — "We have grown from a start-up research institution to one that is competing with some of the finest research facilities throughout the country for grants and research funds," said U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). "The...

November 8, 2004 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Elias Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, will be the featured speaker at groundbreaking ceremonies for the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute on the campus of West Virginia University Nov. 8. ...

September 21, 2004 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Greenbrier Valley Theater will bring its production of The Subject Tonight is Love to Charleston Oct. 3 and Morgantown Oct. 4 for one-time presentations to benefit Alzheimer's Association, West Virginia Chapter, and the...

July 26, 2004 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A new potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease has been shown to treat both the symptoms and the cause of the disease. Mice engineered with human Alzheimer's disease genes that received the treatment showed reduced degeneration...

May 7, 2004 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two-time Grammy winner Kathy Mattea and St. Louis Rams Head Coach Mike Martz will speak with prominent business, legal and community leaders at a gala black-tie benefit for the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute June 4. U...

August 20, 2003 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The $10 million economic development grant approved Wednesday for the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute will mean research jobs for West Virginia – and hope for millions of Alzheimer’s patients. The mission of the...

August 11, 2003 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute scientist Dr. Bernard G. Schreurs and Dr. D. Larry Sparks of the Sun Health Research Institute have determined that trace amounts of copper can increase the number of Alzheimer’s-related...

August 1, 2003 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A founding member of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute's Scientific Advisory Board, as well as a preeminent neuroscientist, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D. died July 31, 2003 at Yale-New Haven Hospital from...

March 16, 2003 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Over 41,000 West Virginians have Alzheimer’s disease and an average of five die from complications of the disease every day. West Virginia’s elderly population is expected to increase 60 percent during the next 25 years. The...

November 25, 2002 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) scientists and scientists at NeuroLogic, Inc. have identified memory genes which someday might yield targets for "brain-boosting" therapies to improve learning and memory. Using...

September 16, 2002 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — World Alzheimer's Day, September 21, 2002, is intended to raise global awareness of the disease and its impact on families. As a son who experienced the personal tragedy of his mother's illness, U. S. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV ...

June 18, 2001 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Toyota Motor North America has made a gift of $1 million to BRNI to endow a Chair of Advanced Brain Imaging. The gift was announced at West Virginia University on June 18 by Toshiaki “Tag” Taguchi, president of the corporation. ...

December 21, 1999 — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Steptoe and Johnson, a multi-practice law firm located in seven offices statewide, announced it will donate $50,000 to the newly-formed Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute. The Institute, headquartered on the campus of...

December 13, 1999 — "Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute" Partners with West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — U.S. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D WV) today announced the formation of a nonprofit multi-million dollar...