44 | MAY 27 • 2021 

HEALTH

R

obert and Katherine 
Jacobs have stepped 
forward to expand 
their support of the research 
of University of Michigan 
renowned neurologist Dr. Eva L. 
Feldman as she seeks to under-
stand neurological diseases and 
develop new therapies to treat 
them. 
“Robert and Katherine are 
going to help us understand 
what allows the brain to be 
healthy in terms of dietary 
intake, which could change pub-
lic policy and also change how 
we as physicians practice,” Dr. 
Feldman said. “They are really 
special people.”
Her laboratory’s years of 
research into amyotrophic 
lateral sclerosis (ALS) led to 
the breakthrough discovery 
of environmental factors that 
often underlie serious neurolog-
ical damage, supported by the 
establishment of the Robert and 
Katherine Jacobs Environmental 
Health Initiative in 2016.
From there, Dr. Feldman was 
able to demonstrate that other, 
vastly more prevalent diseases 
— Alzheimer’s and diabetes, 
for example — could also have 
their origins in not only our 
surroundings, but our lifestyles 
and diets as well.

The Jacobs have now donat-
ed more than $700,000 to this 
initiative and most recently 
sponsored the third install-
ment of the NeuroNetwork 
for Emerging Therapies Mini 
Symposium Series.”
“This is near and dear to my 
heart because I was born in 
Detroit, where we know diabetes 
is such a problem,” says Robert 
Jacobs, the former Buddy’s 
Pizza CEO. “We have seen Dr. 
Feldman’s work firsthand, and 
what she is discovering is truly 
remarkable. We believe it is crit-
ical that Dr. Feldman and her 
staff continue to reveal how our 
health is a result of our lifestyles.”
“We know nutrition is an 
essential part of your overall 
health — your immune system 
and your ability to have a good 
quality of life,” Katherine Jacobs 
says. “We see this research 
program as a way to delay or 
reverse the symptoms and even 
cure some of the disorders that 
we are familiar with because our 
friends and family have them 
and that affect so many people 
in the world.”
Alzheimer’s disease impacts 
roughly 5 million Americans, a 
number that is expected to grow 
as our population ages over the 
next three decades. 

Katherine and Robert Jacobs and Dr. Eva Feldman

U-M

Robert and Katherine Jacobs increase 
support of Dr. Eva Feldman’s research.

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