The most profitable and promising drugs made by the pharma company Eisai (“AY-sigh”) treat this disease. In 2021, three FDA advisors resigned to protest the approval of an erstwhile-blockbuster Biogen drug that failed to improve this disease’s prognosis. Sylvain Lesné faked Western blots to prove the toxic oligomer Aβ*56 (“A-beta-star-56”) causes this disease. In 2022, the clinical success of lecanemab (“luh-CAN-uh-mab”) validated a long-standing hypothesis that this disease occurs when (*) secretases (“SEH-cruh-tazes”) cleave a precursor protein and leave its insoluble beta peptide behind. Two hallmarks of this disease are fibrous tangles of tau protein and aggregated amyloid plaques. This disease’s “early onset” occurs before age 65. For 10 points, name this neurodegenerative disease, the leading cause of dementia. ■END■
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 37% | 0% | 73.77 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Gayden | Detroit Country Day | Winnebago | 34 | 20 |
| Chakri Gudlavalleti | Dunbar | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 35 | 20 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | Hunter A | Washington | 36 | 20 |
| Samarth Ram | Plymouth | Innovation Academy B | 40 | 20 |
| Samuel Li | Thomas Jefferson D | University Lab | 46 | 20 |
| Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Waukee | 46 | 20 |
| Sophie Higgs | Richard Montgomery | Hunter B | 50 | 20 |
| Sarah Dong | Solon | Stevenson A | 50 | 20 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Belvidere | 50 | 20 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Norman | 57 | 20 |
| Tyler Song | Winston Churchill B | Chattahoochee A | 58 | 20 |
| Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Maggie Walker B | 58 | 20 |
| Andrew Tsui | Canyon Crest | Maggie Walker C | 59 | 20 |
| Brielle Rach | Rockford Auburn B | Dallas County | 76 | 10 |
| Ave Rieger | Northmont A | Detroit Catholic Central C | 77 | 0 |
| Aiden Dombrosky | Hoover B | Johns Creek A | 78 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Elkhorn North | 78 | 10 |
| Lucas Ardelean | Innovation Academy A | Northmont B | 78 | 10 |
| Karl Barnickol | Walter Payton | Detroit Catholic Central A | 78 | 10 |
| Jiming Chen | Hinsdale Central | Troy | 82 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Thomas Jefferson B | Barrington B | 88 | 10 |
| Vien Nguyen | Maggie Walker A | John Adams A | 88 | 10 |
| Charles Heydt | Midtown | Norris | 88 | 10 |
| Ryan Dai | Carbondale | Rockford Auburn A | 89 | 10 |
| Rohan Kher | Barrington A | West Point | 89 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Winston Churchill A | New Brighton | 89 | 10 |
| Brian O'Connell | Woodland | John Adams B | 89 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Heights | Stevenson B | 89 | 10 |
| Dylan Cheng | Thomas Jefferson A | Lincoln-Way East | 89 | 10 |
| Anthony Chalhoub | Detroit Catholic Central B | Mexico | 90 | 10 |
| Armaan Ahmed | Mercer County | Mira Loma | 91 | 10 |
| Anvith Vanukuri | William Fremd | Chattahoochee B | 91 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | Lake Highland | Belmont | 93 | 10 |
| Anish Jindal | Parkway West | Saint Joseph | 108 | 10 |
| JT Baysinger | Moberly | Choate Rosemary Hall | 108 | 10 |
| Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Northmont A | 114 | 10 |