SDSU And UCSD Collaborate To Study Alzheimer’s Among The Latino Population

Schools Awarded Five-Year NIH Grant

San Diego State University (SDSU) and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are collaborating to study Alzheimer’s among the Latino population.

For over 30 years, SDSU has been a leader in training future Latino researchers. They were awarded a five-year NIH grant to fund the training and mentoring of underrepresented investigators.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded the scientists a five-year $4 million grant to increase the amount of Latino and other underrepresented minority researchers that study Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias that are afflicting seniors of Latino origin.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than five million Americans are currently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is expected to more than double by 2060. With the population growing the number of Latinos affected by Alzheimer’s and related dementias could rise to 3.2 million by 2060.

SDSU and UCSD will use the grant to create the San Diego Resource Center for Advancing Alzheimer’s Research in Minority Seniors (SDRC-ARMS). The center’s purpose is to recruit, train and mentor investigators from underrepresented backgrounds in leading research into and clinical treatment of Alzheimer’s. The partnership benefits from UCSD’s expertise in geriatrics and aging research, behavioral, sociocultural and systems biology and SDSU’s strength as a research-prolific, Hispanic-serving institution with robust programs in public health and psychology.

Other collaborators from community organizations include the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s San Diego, Glenner Alzheimer’s Family Centers and Southern Caregiver Resource Center.

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