Don Mattes started donating to the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT before being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Since his death in 2020, his wife, Glenda, has boosted Don’s interest in his career. Glenda notes: “I want no one to be Alzheimer’s again. Mattees also supported the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT.
Inheritance creates hope. A former Andover Controls employee who later ran a corporate business in Europe, Don toured six continents with Glenda during their 30-year marriage — often on a ski or bike ride. “Don was a good, very short life,” says Glenda. The couple developed their plans to support the Picower Institute. After Don’s death, Glenda presented a gift to MIT of a real estate agency that set aside funds spent and spent here to support research on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other neurodegenerative diseases. Glenda survived the cancer, and the gift also gave a bag in the couple’s name to the Koch Institute.
Findings from MIT: “Don has always said the best he gets from MIT and is taught to think,” says Glenda. “MIT is a wonderful place. The director of the Picower Institute, Li-Huei Tsai and his team is doing more than just seek treatment for Alzheimer’s. They are looking at the source of the disease. the other is higher. ”
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