$1.4 million awarded for Alzheimer’s disease research training (UCI News)
Funds will support projects with significant clinical translational potential
With a five-year, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant, the Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will establish a training program for Alzheimer’s disease research. An interdisciplinary team of 29 faculty members will mentor and support student trainees, employing state-of-the-art approaches to expand the mechanistic understanding of brain disorders through neural circuit mapping. From above left, they include: Chen Li, Xiaoyu Shi, Kalpna Gupta, Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Orkide Koyuncu, Mark Fisher, Xiangmin Xu, Christine Gall, Todd Holmes, Kei Igarashi, Zhaoxia Yu, Kevin Beier and Gregory Brewer.
“The program will emphasize the development of novel tools and methodologies for early detection, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias,” said principal investigator Xiangmin Xu, Chancellor’s Professor of anatomy & neurobiology and director of the CNCM.
This story originally appeared in UCI News.