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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