Dejana Foundation gives $5M to Northwell Health for Alzheimer’s research
The Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation has provided a $5 million gift to Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to advance research aimed at understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.
The philanthropic investment will support research led by Luca Giliberto and Cristina d’Abramo, investigators in the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes. The funding establishes the Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation Fund for Neurodegenerative Diseases at Northwell Health.