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Pilot Projects

Current

These awards are aimed at investigators at the associate research scientist/instructor level, although exceptions are possible for early-stage assistant professors.
Award Year 5/01/2022 - 4/30/2023
  • Marcello DiStasio, MD, PhD: "Uncovering Proinflammatory Signatures in Alzheimer's Disease Using Spatial Transcriptomics"
  • Juan Young, MD: "Investigating a CD8+ T cell associated aging gene signature in Alzheimer's disease"

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

  • Daniel Jane-Wit, MD, PhD, RPVI: "ZFYVE21 and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy in Alzheimer's disease Related Dementias"
  • Dibyadeep Datta: "Investigating the role of pT217-tau in the pathogenesis of AD and relevance for biomarker development"

Past

Previously awarded pilot projects funded by a NIA ADRC grant.

Award Year 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016

  • Janghoo Lim, PhD: "The role of Neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease with focus on nemo-Like Kinase"
  • Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD: "Brain PET Imaging of Synaptic Density in Alzheimer's disease"

Award Year 4/1/2016 - 3/31/2017

  • Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD: "Brain PET Imaging of Synaptic Density in Alzheimer's disease"
  • Becky Carlyle, PhD: "Profiling 3D Amyloid Patterns"

Award Year 4/1/2017 - 3/31/2018

Award Year 4/1/2018 - 3/31/2019

  • Carla Rothlin, PhD: "Mechanisms of reactive astrogliosis - a critical feature in Alzheimer's disease"
  • Sreeganga Chandra, PhD: "Testing Synapse Protection Strategies for Alzheimer's disease"
  • Anita Huttner, MD: "Modeling Sporadic Alzheimer's disease with Human IPSC-Derived Cerebral Organoids"

Award Year 4/1/2019 - 3/31/2020

  • Kurt Zilm, PhD: "Structural characterization by NMR of amyloid-beta oligomers bounds in hydrogel phase to prion protein"
  • Le Zhang, PhD: "Single nucleus and single-cell profiling of human brain and CSF in Alzheimer's disease"

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