{"id":139028,"date":"2025-07-31T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139028"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:38:23","slug":"professor-david-macmillan-a-nobel-prize-winning-scottish-chemist-has-told-the-bbc-he-thinks-drugs-to-treat-alzheimers-disease-will-be-available-within-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139028","title":{"rendered":"Professor David MacMillan, a Nobel Prize-winning Scottish chemist, has told the BBC he thinks drugs to treat Alzheimers disease will be available within five years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Nobel Prize-winning Scottish chemist has told the BBC he thinks drugs to treat Alzheimer&#8217;s disease will be available within five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Princeton University&#8217;s Prof David MacMillan, who is originally from North Lanarkshire, said &#8220;phenomenal things&#8221; are happening within medical research into neurological diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would bet my house that within five years that we have marketed drugs for Alzheimer&#8217;s,&#8221; Prof MacMillan told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002gg11\">BBC&#8217;s Scotcast podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My father died of vascular dementia and my aunt had dementia. I think that&#8217;s such a horrible way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3ez8wg28eeo\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;I&#39;d bet my house&#39; on treatment for Alzheimer&#39;s, says Nobel prize winner <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jS2dZGZKr0\">https:\/\/t.co\/jS2dZGZKr0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCScotlandNews\/status\/1950851460566053355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nobel Prize-winning Scottish chemist has told the BBC he thinks drugs to treat Alzheimer&#8217;s disease will be available within five years. Princeton University&#8217;s Prof David MacMillan, who is originally from North Lanarkshire, said &#8220;phenomenal things&#8221; are happening within medical<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139028\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139028"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139033,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139028\/revisions\/139033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}