"Houston, We Have a Problem..." Apollo 13 Commander to Headline Sanders-Brown Annual Dinner
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 1, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation will feature remarks from Apollo 13 commander and NASA legend Capt. Jim Lovell at its annual dinner on Thursday, April 7, 2016.
Lovell is famous for his calm, careful command of Apollo 13. Through teamwork and decisive leadership, Lovell and his crew modified the lunar module into an effective lifeboat to safely return to Earth in 1970. This inspiring national hero turned, “Houston, we have a problem” into an enduring part of the American lexicon.
The dinner will fund internationally recognized ongoing research at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, where researchers are engaged in the battle against Alzheimer's disease and other age-related illnesses.
A cocktail reception begins at 6:30 pm in Lexington Center Blue Grass Ballroom, Lexington, Ky. The dinner and remarks follow at 7:30 pm. Individual tickets are $175; table sponsorships start at $1,500. For more information contact the Foundation Office at 859-323-5374.
The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) has been conducting research on Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other age-related disease for more than 35 years. In 1985, the Center was one of the first 10 National Institutes of Health-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. Today, SBCoA is an internationally prestigious research center, identifying mechanisms for healthy brain aging and age-related diseases and exploring treatments that may slow down, cure, and/or prevent these diseases entirely.
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