Newswise — Researchers with the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, will serve as principal investigators for a major five-year initiative with Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Southern California, to pool and standardize research data gathered from individuals in multiple studies of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD).
The new endeavor is funded by a $31.7 million grant awarded to the lead research site at Vanderbilt University, by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). HIHG principal investigator, Michael Cuccaro, Ph.D., associate director of the HIHG’s Center for Genomic Education & Outreach, will lead UM’s portion of the project.
The initiative will utilize existing data from more than 30 research cohorts to create a…
