Team BRAIN - Gemstone UMD

04/09/2022

We successfully presented and defended our team thesis yesterday!! Despite the many challenges we faced since the beginning of this research in 2019, we persevered and conquered! Special thank you to our incredible mentor, experts, LaunchUMD donors, Gemstone staff, UMD libraries, and our family and friends! We appreciate every amount of support you have poured into us these past few years 💜

Our virtual presentation will be uploaded on the official Gemstone website soon. Stay tuned for details :)

04/29/2021

We are extremely excited to announce that Team BRAIN is featured in this year’s Undergraduate Research Day!! Head over to the link in our bio and search for ‘Team Brain’ to view our poster (or listen to a voice over) to get the latest updated on our project! 🥳

03/05/2020

We are so grateful for all of the generous donations and efforts we’ve received throughout the day! We are proud to say that we have managed to secure a $500 bonus including all of the money we’ve raised thanks to you! No words can imagine how thankful we are for all of the support we’ve received 💜 We are incredibly excited to embark on an exciting journey in efforts to study the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease! The campaign will continue for an additional 30 days so we will continue to collect ANY contribution, big or small!

03/04/2020

We're almost at 1k! Let's keep it going!

Help University of Maryland raise $5,000 for the project: Revolutionizing Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. Your gift will make a difference!

03/04/2020

team BRAIN’s mission- Today’s Giving Day!! We need your help to pay for the costs of our research! No donation is too small to help us reach our goal of $5000. We appreciate and thank you all for all of the support and contributions 💜 https://go.umd.edu/teamBRAIN

03/03/2020

Tomorrow’s the BIG day! Starting at 12am, our Launch page to raise money for our project will begin. We need your financial support in obtaining our overall goal of $5000! All day tomorrow we’ll be looking to have at least 100 CONTRIBUTORS donate a minimum of $10! Your support means everything to us! Here’s the donation link: https://go.umd.edu/teamBRAIN

03/01/2020

With Giving Day 3 days away, we want to explain what our goal of $5000 means for our project!

team BRAIN is looking to correlate biomarker levels and lifestyle choices with the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. In our research, each participant’s physical health and cognitive function will be assessed using many techniques, including an Alzheimer’s Cognitive Battery.

By analyzing changes in a set of biomarkers characteristic of the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, we hope to propose a novel, quantitative way to diagnose the disease while paving a way to identify potential drug targets in the future!

Stay tuned for more information on how you can help us on Wednesday, March 4th!

02/27/2020

introducing the dream team... team BRAIN 💜

02/27/2020

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraising event held all throughout the University, is coming up! Our goal to bring our project to fruition is $5000, which includes all of our necessities. On Wednesday, March 4th we need all the support we can get! On that specific day, we generously ask that you help us reach our goal! The more contributors we have, the better chances we have in winning bonuses given by UMD. So PLEASE mark your calendars and stay tuned for the link!

Picture Courtesy: Gemstone Program

11/20/2019

As November, which is Alzheimer's Awareness month, comes to an end, our team is asking you all for a favor!

We are asking you all, our amazing supporters, to help us fundraise for our project.

Our specific fundraising link is: https://go.umd.edu/TeamBrain

Any contribution will truly help us get closer to achieving our goals!

We thank and appreciate you for your continuous support!

10/20/2019

Hi! Welcome to Team Brain's page! Team Brain is a product from the University of Maryland's Gemstone Honors Program. For the next three years at UMD, we will be seeking to observe changes in biomarker presence of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, with UMD's very own Professor J. Carson Smith as our mentor. We are very excited about our project and the journey we are about to embark on. Please like and share our page, as your support means the most to us! Stay tuned for further posts! Thank you!