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- EIN 27-2444495
- (415) 626-1501
- 637 Carolina St San Francisco CA 94107-2725 USA
- www.bluefieldproject.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Brain Disorders, Health
Mission: Frontal lobe of the brain and may extend back to the temporal lobe. Ftd is the second most common early-onset dementia after alzheimer's disease.
Programs: The bluefield project is an effort to find a treatment or cure for frontotemporal dementia (ftd) by funding ftd-related research. By privately funding basic, translational and clinical ftd-related research, the donor group that established the bluefield project has significantly increased the number of labs studying ftd. The consortium for frontotemporal dementia research, funded in part by the bluefield project, applies a business model to research by incentivizing the sharing of data and reagents, thereby accelerating discovery. Ftd encompasses a group of complex neurodegenerative diseases characterized by progressive deterioration of the frontotemporal lobes and resultant loss of decision-making abilities and control of behavior, emotion, and language.