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MetLife Foundation is MetLife's independent charitable and grant-awarding foundation. It was founded in 1976 [ 137 ] and had provided over $650 million in grants by January 2015. [ 137 ] The foundation has partnered with and donated to a variety of organizations, including Habitat for Humanity since 2010 [ 138 ] and the Martin Luther King, Jr ...
The Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease were awarded annually from 1986 to 2016 to recognize scientific contributions toward a better understanding of the underlying causes, prevention, and treatments of Alzheimer's disease.
Eva-Maria and her husband were jointly awarded the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease in 2009, [2] the Potamkin Prize of the American Academy of Neurology in 2011 (the goal of the prize is to help attract the best medical minds and most dedicated scientists in the world to the field of dementia research), [4 ...
Dennis J. Selkoe (born 25 September 1943) is an American physician (neurologist) known for his research into the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease. [1] In 1985 he became Co-Director of the Center for Neurological Diseases and from 1990, Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurological Diseases at Harvard Medical School. [2]
His efforts led to the creation of a novel category of high-efficacy radiopharmaceutical agents, for example Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB), which can be used to assess beta-amyloid in the living human brain using PET scanning, and which is a fluorescent analog of thioflavin T. [3] For his work on Alzheimer's disease he has received the Metlife ...
In 2009, the series was renamed the MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series. The music ranges from classical and folk to popular and contemporary in an effort to highlight the diversity of musical activity in the Americas.
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Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson (born May 21, 1947) was the Chairman of the Board, president and chief executive officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006. Henrikson was succeeded by Steven A. Kandarian as Chair, President and CEO of MetLife, Inc. in 2011.