This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) in the amount of $121,550 will support research to examine the effects of federal, state, and local governmental investments in early life on midlife cognition and later-life risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The research aims to (1) assess if county-level investments in legal systems or K-12 education during...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $2,399,431 and effective August 1, 2024, is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866). The objective is to develop a digital cognitive health resource based on the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (BU ADRC) cohort. The grant will leverage the BU ADRC's extensive longitudinal data, including vascular risk factors, biomarkers, and neuropsychological tests, to collect concurrent...
This federal Project Grant award of $778,551 from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) will fund a research project to estimate a novel probabilistic dementia classification for over 10 million Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older. The objective is to better understand diagnostic disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, particularly among racial/ethnic minority and underserved rural populations. The project will leverage linked Health and...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $5,262,301 project grant under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) to Trustees of Boston University (Boston University Medical Campus) for the "Improving Causal Inference in Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Research on Modifiable Risk Factors: The Triangulation of Innovative Methods to END AD (TIME-AD) Project". The 5-year award, effective September 15, 2024, will support a comprehensive research program focused on...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $302,960 to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to conduct research aimed at identifying individuals who would benefit most from intensive blood pressure control for preventing cognitive decline and dementia, as well as those at risk of serious adverse events. The 2-year project will employ advanced statistical methods, including risk score and effect score analyses, to analyze...
This federal Project Grant award of $787,390.00 from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports a comprehensive study to examine the relationship between diet, neuroinflammation, brain oxidative stress, and plasma neurodegenerative biomarkers in a diverse population. The goal is to elucidate the link between diet and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD). The study will leverage data from four longitudinal community cohorts to investigate the...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $122,850 and awarded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866, Aging Research), will provide the awardee, Vanderbilt University, with protected time and resources to undertake additional training and research on the social determinants of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The primary objectives of the award are to: 1) Examine the effects of married women's labor force exclusion on their cognitive outcomes later in life using...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) provides $319,000 to Brown University to examine rural-urban disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) across the United States. The project aims to 1) produce robust estimates of dementia prevalence in rural and urban America, and 2) characterize the types of rural places and people most affected by dementia. This research is intended to improve...
The National Institute on Aging awarded a $332,135 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of California, Berkeley, with a sub-award to San Francisco State University, to investigate the relationship between early-life education availability/quality and the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Black and white autoworkers. The project aims to leverage an existing occupational cohort study and link it to historical census and Medicare/Medicaid...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will provide $671,042 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to study the impact of economic policies on the dementia care workforce and patient outcomes. The project aims to analyze how changes in minimum wages, staffing regulations, and union status in long-term care settings affect worker wages, turnover, and patient functional status, mental health, and health care utilization...