Katz School of Medicine opens Alzheimer's Center

Dr. Domenico Praticò examines a slide in a lab at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine on March 27. Praticò is the first director of the newly created
​Alzheimer’s Center at Temple. | SYDNEY SCHAEFER / THE TEMPLE NEWS

​The Lewis Katz School of Medicine created the Alzheimer’s Center at Temple from funds donated by Board of Trustees member Phil Richards earlier this month.
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Richards’s gift created the center and established the Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Chair for Alzheimer’s Research. Dr. Domenico Practicò, a pharmacology professor, will be the new chair and director of the center.

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