Cleveland to Establish Collaborative Research Center for Alzheimer's Disease With $4 Million Grant

The U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Aging will use a two-year $4.23 million grant to establish the Cleveland Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, reports Crain's Cleveland Business . The center will be one of 31 NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers of Excellence in the country, and the first in Ohio. It will be helmed by James Leverenz of the Cleveland Clinic, and staffed by scientists and clinicians from the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, the MetroHealth System, and University Hospitals. Leverenz said the center "will bring together the considerable expertise from the Northeast Ohio medical and academic communities to focus on one of the largest healthcare crises facing our country and the state of Ohio." Experts will focus on areas that include administration, biomarkers, clinical, data management and statistics, neuropathology, outreach, recruitment and engagement, research education, and translational therapeutics. The center will specifically explore atypical Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, in addition to healthy individuals at risk for dementia and underserved populations. The center also will teach scientists, healthcare professionals, and the public about dementia, its causes, and treatments.