Researchers Awarded $26.56 Million NIH Grant for FHS Brain Aging Program (FHS-BAP)

BU School of Public Health – – Thanks to a five-year, $26.56 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a new program called the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program (FHS-BAP) will continue the surveillance and evaluation of FHS participants for dementia (including cognitive assessments and brain imaging) and invigorate the FHS brain donation program and brain bank. The program will also establish a platform to promote data sharing that will accelerate AD research using FHS data and conduct three interrelated projects using FHS data and specimen resources.

Lindsay Farrer, chief of biomedical genetics at the School of Medicine and professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Rhoda Au, professor of anatomy & neurobiology, and neurology at the School of Medicine and of epidemiology at the School of Public Health will lead the research.

Dr. Farrer explains, “the primary goal of this new program is to continue dementia surveillance, bring added resources to the brain donation program including neuropathological examination to identify new and expand on known AD-related genetic and other risk factors and biomarkers and to pursue innovative research about the vascular and inflammatory basis of AD.”

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