These days Lansbury, Selkoe and other proponents of the cluster theory are suddenly in the mainstream.

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It does so, Selkoe's lab figured out, by boosting the secretion of amyloid fragments by brain cells.

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Selkoe teamed up with venture capitalists in 1986 to found Athena Neurosciences, now part of Elan Corp. of Dublin, Ireland.

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Harvard neurologist Dennis Selkoe is a champion of the amyloid theory.

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But Dennis Selkoe, a neurologist at Harvard and an early champion of the amyloid theory of Alzheimer's, took notice and lured Lansbury to Harvard Medical School in 1996.

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