New Sponsors @ 2012 SharpBrains Summit: Bracket, Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation

Found­ed in 2011, Brack­et is the union of Unit­ed BioSource Corporation’s (UBC) Spe­cial­ty Clin­i­cal Ser­vices and Clin­i­cal Tech­nolo­gies divi­sions. Brack­et is a spe­cial­ty ser­vices provider ded­i­cat­ed to help­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal spon­sors and con­tract research orga­ni­za­tions achieve greater cer­tain­ty and accu­rate out­comes in their clin­i­cal tri­als by seam­less­ly lever­ag­ing sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and oper­a­tional excel­lence. Brack­et offers com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ment through CDR Sys­tem, pro­vid­ing clin­i­cal researchers with inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy to pre­cise­ly ass­es the major aspects of cog­ni­tive func­tion known to be influ­enced by med­i­cines and diseases.

The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), estab­lished in 1993, is ded­i­cat­ed to reduc­ing the inci­dence of Alzheimer’s dis­ease by con­duct­ing clin­i­cal research and pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tion­al out­reach. Its mis­sion is to make avail­able infor­ma­tion, from con­ven­tion­al and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, that will empow­er peo­ple to build healthy brains.