SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – 35 years ago, a pair of scientists made a discovery that they believed would change Alzheimer’s research forever. Now they say they’ve done it. Fiona Crawford is one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s. She studied at the prestigious Saint Mary’s University in London, leaving her life in Ireland behind to break into an area of science that was only beginning to see the spotlight. That was 1988, and it only took two years for her to publish groundbreaking research.