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Extramural Award Recipients

2023-2025

Targeting early astrocyte dysfunction to block Alzheimer’s disease progression

Nicola J. Allen, PhD
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

2020-2023

AMPylation-mediated chaperone regulation in Alzheimer’s disease

Matthias Truttmann, PhD
Medical School, University of Michigan

2018-2020

Structural plasticity of ApoE and its role in AD

Andrea Soranno, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis

2016-2018

Selective targeting of the corticothalamic network to improve cognition and behavior in Alzheimer’s disease

Jeannie Chin, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

2014-2016

A novel Amyloid-Beta Receptor driving synapse loss in Alzheimer’s Disease

Carla J. Shatz, PhD
Stanford University                           

Preventing Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

Bradley T. Hyman, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School

2012-2014

Role of Metal Ions in Alzheimer’s Disease

Mi Hee Lim, PhD
University of Michigan

2010-2012

Propagation of Tau Protein Misfolding

Marc I. Diamond, MD
School of Medicine
Washington University

2008-2010

Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease: Measuring Amyloid Beta Production & Clearance Rates in Blood

Randall J. Bateman, MD
School of Medicine
Washington University

Neural Stem Cells and Inflammation:Implications for Alzheimer’s Disease

Brandi K. Ormerod, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Florida

2006-2008

NAD Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease

Gang Yu, PhD
Center for Basic Neuroscience and
Department of Cell Biology
Southwestern Medical Center

University of Texas

2004-2006

Role of Macrophage Activation and Human Endogenous Retrovirus Expression in Alzheimer’s Disease

Michael S. McGrath, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine and Pathology
University of California, San Francisco

2002-2004

A Novel fMRI Method of the Detection of Incipient Alzheimer’s Disease

Allan L. Reiss, MD
Michael D. Greicius, MD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Stanford University                           

2000-2002                 

Hippocampal Vulnerability in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease

Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD
Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology
The University of Chicago

1998-2000

CNS-derived ApoE:  Role in Lipid / Cholesterol Metabolism

David Holtzman, MD
School of Medicine
Department of Neurobiology and
Center for Study of Nervous System Injury
Washington University

1996-1998

Synaptotrophic Effects of ApoE

Eliezer Masliah, MD
School of Medicine
Departments of Neurosciences and of Pathology
University of California, San Diego

1994-1996

The Calcium-Dependant Crosslinking of Tau byTransglutaminase:  A Possible Role in Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation

Gail V.W. Johnson, PhD
School of Medicine
Departments of Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology
University of Alabama, Birmingham

1992-1994

Growth Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease

Fred H. Gage, PhD
Department of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego

Neurodegeneration in Libyan Jews with Prion Protein Gene Mutations – Modeling The Disease In Transgenic Mice

Stanley B. Prusiner, MD
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco

1990-1992

APOE and Alzheimer’s Disease

Allen Roses
Department of Medicine, Neurology
School of Medicine
Duke University

Molecular Pathology of Neuronal Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease

Dennis Selkoe
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Application Deadlines

RFA now live for the Ann B. Bussel Research Award.  Letters of Intent are due by October 16, 2023.

RFAs now live for the Faculty Scholar, Human Brain Models Research, Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards at Duke. Applications are due February 1, 2024 for those awards.

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New Grant

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