The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) continued its 25th-anniversary celebration at the Thirteenth Annual Great Ladies Luncheon and Fashion Show. The event honored philanthropist Amy Baier with the 2023 Great Ladies Award and entrepreneur and restaurateur of Café Milano fame Franco Nuschese with the 2023 Estelle Gelman Award. The event raised more than $600,000, which will go directly to scientific research, and celebrated the support by this year’s honorees for the ADDF’s mission of accelerating the development of drugs to prevent, treat, and cure Alzheimer’s. The program also featured a special fashion show of designs by AKRIS in collaboration with fashion partner Saks.

The event also featured an in-depth discussion on the latest advances in Alzheimer’s prevention research with Dr. Howard Fillit, the ADDF’s Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Dr. Kristine Yaffe of the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Jose Luchsinger of Columbia University.

Notable guests included Lynn Blitzer, Patrice Brickman, Larry Bruce, Kristin Cecchi, Charlie Lefkowitz Crowley, Jacqueline Duberstein, Jean-Marie Fernandez, Nancy Goodes, Mae Grennan, Peter Herink, Sheila Johnson, Cindy Jones, Elise and Marc Lefkowitz, Carrie Marriott, Norah O’Donnell, Kelly Ripken, Toni Verstandig, and Lorraine Wallace.