17-year-old Connecticut student found 2 FDA-approved drugs that could help fight Alzheimer’s: How his surprising discovery works

A 17-year-old Connecticut student, Leon Wang, identified two FDA-approved lung-scarring drugs that reduced Alzheimer’s-linked cellular damage in lab-grown brain blood-vessel cells. His research offers a promising new clue into how APOE4 and the TGFβ pathway may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease, while raising the possibility that existing medicines could eventually be repurposed for brain health.