The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $331,270 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of Houston System to conduct a study on the associations between place, stress, and cognitive status among middle-aged and older Black men. The study will leverage resources from the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging and build on existing collaborations to introduce and evaluate a theory-driven conceptual model. This work aims to provide...
The National Institute on Aging awarded a $331,439 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866, Aging Research) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new anti-amyloid medications for Alzheimer's disease in Black and low-income populations. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Using a mixed methods approach to better understand the preferences, diagnostic/monitoring burdens, and factors affecting...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $1,987,023 Project Grant under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop new measurement tools and computer adaptive tests to better characterize the experiences of non-traditional and minority informal caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The 3-year project aims to identify critical elements of the caregiving role through semi-structured interviews...
This $197,747 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) will support a mixed-methods investigation into the impact of structural gendered racism on cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease risk among Black women. The study aims to: 1) develop and validate a multidimensional index of structural gendered racism through qualitative interviews with Black women; 2) identify latent class profiles of structural gendered racism; and 3) examine associations...
This $4.5 million project grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, supports research under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866). The University of Michigan will examine racial inequities in neurological conditions like vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and stroke. Leveraging the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study cohort of over 30,000 adults, the research aims to determine...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports a research study to investigate the impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on late-life cognitive outcomes and Alzheimer's disease risk among Black adults. The $276,621.19 award to the University of California, San Francisco will leverage national panel datasets to evaluate the causal effects of HBCU attendance, proximity, and funding policy compared to...
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 $8,101,854 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund a project titled "Characterizing the Genetic Risk for Alzheimer Disease in African and Admixed African-American Ancestries". The project aims to generate whole genome sequencing data, plasma biomarkers, and MRI data from approximately 9,000 individuals of African ancestry, including 5,000 Africans and 4,000 African Americans. This additional data will be collected...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $2,377,269 project grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Trustees of Boston University to evaluate how environmental factors impact cognitive health and risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among racially and ethnically diverse older adult populations. The 5-year project, titled "Environmental Resources for Individual Cognitive Health/Resilience (ENRICH)," will leverage data from five NIH-funded cohorts (total...
This $2,380,018 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) will fund a multi-institutional research study focused on understanding the influence of hyperglycemia from type 2 diabetes and prediabetes on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease risk over the life course. The research team, led by the University of Michigan, will use pooled cohort data and meta-analysis to examine how cumulative hyperglycemia and diabetes management...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $2,118,030 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct a 20-year longitudinal study examining risk and protective factors for cognitive health and functioning among Black Americans. The study aims to re-interview approximately 2,600 participants from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) to collect data on psychosocial, environmental, and biological determinants of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in this population. The University of Michigan will partner with Wayne State University to pilot the survey instrument and develop standard operating procedures for the data collection. Through this project, the researchers seek to create a high-impact scientific resource to better understand modifiable factors influencing cognitive aging among Black Americans.