2024 Strategic Grant (SG)
Biomarkers linking SARS-CoV2 Infection to the Risk of ADRD
Richard Lipton
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY - United States
This funding from the Alzheimer's Association will leverage an ongoing NIH-funded U19 titled "Interactions between SV-2 Infection and Ancestral Genomic Variations in the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease (ISAVRAD)" that is looking at the impact of COVID-19 on cognitive function and incidence of Alzheimer's and other dementia in 4,300 older adults of under-represented ancestries. This funding will support the infrastructure for collection and storage of biospecimen from study participants as well as the study of Alzheimer’s, neurodegeneration and inflammatory biomarkers in conjunction with data obtained as part of the larger study (imaging, clinical, genetic measures).