Newswise — A $53.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will aid brain scientists, including a researcher from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), in studying the role of incidental white matter lesions, or WMLs, in dementia among diverse people with cognitive complaints.
The study is led by UC Davis School of Medicine in partnership with UTHealth. It is a new and critical part of the NIH’s Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID) research program.
Co-principal investigator is Myriam Fornage, PhD, professor of genetics at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. Fornage is a leading researcher on the molecular genetics of cerebrovascular disease.
“Our team has been at the forefront of genetic studies of…
