Alzheimer's Association Awards Largest Ever Research Grant ($8 Million) To Expand The A4 Alzheimer's Prevention Trial

The Alzheimer's Association's goal with this award is to jump-start the development of new detection methods, treatments, and prevention strategies for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.The Alzheimer's Association today announced its largest ever research grant – $8 million over four years – to support the Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration (LEARN) study as a companion study to the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) Study, a pioneering Alzheimer's prevention trial that is starting this year.The grant was awarded to Reisa Sperling, M.D., M.M.Sc., professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-principal investigator of the A4 Trial (with Paul S. Aisen, M.D., professor of neurosciences at University of California San Diego, and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study).Alzheimer's Reading Room Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: Alzheimer's Association Awards Largest Ever Research Grant ($8 Million) To Expand The A4 Alzheimer's Prevention TrialLEARN Project will Track Cognitive Change in a Comparison Group of Older Individuals, and Initiate the First Tau Imaging Study in a Longitudinal Prevention Trial"The Alzheimer's Association's goal with this award, with our colleagues at A4, is to jump-start the development of new detection methods, treatments, an...
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