SAN ANTONIO — UT Health San Antonio, which is the academic health center at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has received a $5 million gift to the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases to advance their strategy of research, patient care and other strategic priorities, according to a release.
The gift comes courtesy of donors Bill and Rebecca Reed. The precision therapy center at the institute will now bear their names.
“This investment reinforces the Biggs Institute’s role as a leader in dementia research and care to accelerate its efforts to deliver solutions that matter to communities across South Texas and beyond,” UT San Antonio President Taylor Eighmy said in the release.
Precision therapy is a concept that ties individual methods of treatment to a patient’s specific needs. It then determines a unique treatment pathway for that patient.
“Precision therapy recognizes that each individual with their unique genetics and life experiences has subtle, but important, differences in why they have dementia, how their disease manifests and progresses, what they and their families need, and how their particular form of the illness may best be prevented or treated,” said Sudha Seshadri, professor, behavioral neurologist and founding director of the Biggs Institute.
The Biggs Institute is dedicated to dementia care through research and clinical trial. It is also a National Institute on Aging (NIA)-designated Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC).