2019 McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award: LOI due March 26
January 22, 2018 — The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience awards up to four awards annually, each providing $100,000 per year for three years. Due Date: Letters of intent are due on March 26, 2018. Full proposals will be due September 10, 2018. Funding begins on February 1, 2019.
March 1 and 2: NIH Alzheimer’s Research Summit 2018
January 17, 2018 — Join the NIA in setting the next phase of Alzheimer’s research strategy, in a key strategic planning meeting in person on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland or via videocast. Learn More.
Illumina and UW Grant Opportunity
January 04, 2018 — Illumina and the University of Washington is teaming up to provide a grant program for researchers. The grants will provide Nextera DNA Flex for use in a wide range of scientific applications. Submit abstracts by Jan 15.
Neurology Today: Disparities in Care: Understanding the Overlap of Brain Health and Cardiovascular Disease in American Indians
January 02, 2018 — Read about the history, challenges, and successes of the ADRC Satellite Core's brain disease research in Native communities, in this Neurology Today article featuring Dr. Dedra Buchwald and Dr. Astrid Suchy-Dicey of UW ADRC/WSU Partnerships for Native Health.
NIH ‘All of Us’ Research Program Seeks Input on Research Priorities
December 20, 2017 — The 'All of Us' Research Program aims to build one of the largest, most diverse datasets of its kind for health research, with one million or more volunteers nationwide, who will share their information over time. Submit your ideas through a “use case” tool that outlines and describes research questions that the project could help answer. Propose an Alzheimer's-related question! The deadline is February 9, 2018.
ADRC’s Dr. Eric Larson Pens Editorial: Prevention of Late-Life Dementia: No Magic Bullet
December 19, 2017 — Read the Dec 19th editorial published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which accompanies the University of Minnesota review of >6 month trial studies of the effectiveness of physical activity interventions in slowing cognitive decline and delaying dementia onset.
McKnight Award for Research on Memory & Cognitive Disorders Given to Beth Buffalo
December 15, 2017 — The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected the UW's Buffalo Lab to receive a 2018 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award. Our article Gaming the Memory System explores her work to study memory formation in the primate brain. Read on.
The ADRC Launches Partnership with Cerveau Technologies in the use of the new tau tracer [F-18]MK-6240
December 13, 2017 — "The availability of tau PET scanning using [18F]MK-6240 will help us investigate the different mechanisms that advance Alzheimer’s disease in the brain, as well as mechanisms of resilience, and will provide a revolutionary progression biomarker to guide therapeutic trials across all stages of the disease, especially the early stages when symptoms may be absent or ambiguous.” Read more.
US Postal Service releases new Alzheimer’s Stamp on 11/30 to help support NIH funded research
November 29, 2017 — United States Postal Service is dedicating an Alzheimer's Stamp tomorrow at 1:00 pm PT. Proceeds will go to help support Alzheimer’s research at the NIH. See the dedication live!
ADRC’s Dr. Matt Kaeberlein (UW Pathology) named as a 2017 AAAS fellow
November 27, 2017 — Eight UW researchers are among the 396 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, announced this week. AAAS fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.