Development Projects

These development projects are aimed to provide seed money for faculty investigators to explore the feasibility of Alzheimer's disease studies and to obtain sufficient preliminary data to seek support through other funding mechanisms. They are specifically designed to foster the work of young investigators (including both assistant professors and associate research scientists) beginning a career in Alzheimer's research.

Award Year 5/1/23 - 4/30/24

• Insoo Kang: “Investigating comprehensive genomic profile and heterogeneity of viral antigen-specific T cells in patients with Alzheimer's disease using single cell RNA sequencing”
• Jianbing Zhou: “Ribonucleoprotein-mediated genome editing therapy for Alzheimer's Disease”

Award Year 5/1/2022 - 4/30/2023

• Caroline Fredericks, MD: "Predictive modeling of genetic Alzheimer's risk and memory performance in healthy older adults"
• Chao Zheng, PhD: "Longitudinal ROCK2-PET imaging study in the TgF344-AD transgenic rat model of AD"

Award Year 5/01/2021 - 4/30/2022

• Pallavi Gopal, MD, PhD: "TDP-43 transport and spatiotemporal regulation of RNA in Alzheimer's disease"
• David Matuskey, MD and Arman Fesharaki, MD, PhD, BMath: "Novel in vivo synaptic imaging in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD)"

Award Year 6/15/2020 - 4/30/2021

• Pallavi Gopal, MD, PhD: "TDP-43 transport and spatiotemporal regulation of RNA in Alzheimer's disease"
• David Matuskey, MD and Arman Fesharaki, MD, PhD, BMath: "Novel in vivo synaptic imaging in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD)"