Development Project Grants Request for applications Alzheimer’s Disease Development Grants The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (BU ADC) Is Soliciting Proposals for Pilot and Feasibility Studies Application Deadline: January 11th, 2019 New proposals or initiatives for biomedical, epidemiological behavioral, legal, ethical, health systems or other research in Alzheimer’s disease are encouraged. Two NIH funded […]
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan was the first president to designate November as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, while President Bill Clinton first designated November as National Family Caregivers Month in 1997.
After 10 years of studying brains donated by families of deceased military servicepeople, football players, and other contact-sport athletes, researchers from the BU School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System have amassed more than 600 brains, a collection they say has grown large enough to enable meaningful analysis of the genetics related to […]
The latest issue of the BU ADC Bulletin is now available!
The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center Education & Outreach team publishes a newsletter, the BU ADC Bulletin. It includes stories about research findings, new studies and more.
Congratulations to BUSM Assistant Professor of Neurology and BU ADC Faculty Member, Hugo Aparicio, MD, MPH, for being among the eight faculty chosen to receive a Career Development Professorship Award.
Jesse Mez, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology at BUSM, has received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the United States Department of Defense.