I have started collaboration with prof. Roman Zubarev on a project related to biomarker discovery for Alzheimer's disease.

Selected preliminary results (obtained using MedicWave software) have already been presented in Finland during FP7 Predict AD Workshop in June, 2011.

Alzheimer's has become the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S. (the fifth-leading cause of death if you taking under consideration only people over 65). For now Alzheimer's cannot be prevented or slowed down in progress. One of the latest reports shows that Americans are scared of Alzheimer’s only a little bit less than of a cancer.

Unfortunately for now the only definitive way to diagnose Alzheimer’s is through a brain autopsy post-mortem. Australian scientists from CSIRO focused on finding the method of early-stage Alzheimer's detection – even before memory loss and thinking process disorder are noticeable.

Team of researchers led by Dr. Samantha Burnham has developed a simple blood test for Alzheimer disease. The test monitors the level of nine proteins that appear to be correlated with amyloid level in the brain.