City College of New York

Executives Depart Cassava, Maker of Disputed Alzheimer’s Drug

The chief executive and a lead scientist stepped down weeks after a federal grand jury filed fraud charges against a research collaborator.

By Teddy Rosenbluth

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Embattled Alzheimer’s Researcher Is Charged With Fraud

Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at City College, published studies supporting simufilam, now in advanced clinical trials.

By Apoorva Mandavilli

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David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86

A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who liked to redefine himself, he was originally known as an experimentalist but was later identified with a lush style that came to be called the New Romanticism.

By Allan Kozinn

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Scientists Investigating Alzheimer’s Drug Faulted in Leaked Report

A professor at the City College of New York engaged in “significant research misconduct,” an investigating committee concluded.

By Apoorva Mandavilli