Brain Donor Project
Created by Tish Hevel • 4 episodes
Brain Donor Project
Hosted by Tish Hevel, the Brain Donor Project exist to increase brain donation to advance science, leading to the treatment and cure of neurological, neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. We’re here to increase awareness for and simplify the process of brain donation.
Founder and CEO, The Brain Donor Project
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Tish Hevel is the Founder/CEO of The Brain Donor Project, a unique nonprofit that exclusively supports the brain banks of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NeuroBioBank. The Brain Donor Project was established in late 2016 to raise awareness of the critical need for donated brain tissue to advance the science of brain disease and to simplify the process of becoming a brain donor. To date, nearly 18,000 people have taken steps to become a brain donor. They represent more than 200 categories of brain disease, and almost half have healthy (or control) brains. The Brain Donor Project was inspired by the death of Hevel's dad, Gene, who died from Lewy Bodies Dementia and was a brain donor himself.