University of Maryland Wins $3.16 Million NIH Award for EdDem Network on Childhood and Dementia Risk
The University of Maryland announced on November 13 that it has received $3.16 million from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to build the Education, Early Life and Dementia (EdDem) research network, which studies how experiences in childhood and adolescence shape dementia risk in later life.
Led by Katrina Walsemann, a professor in the university's School of Public Health, the network will bring together researchers from multiple institutions and combine long-running data on education, childhood family environment and early-life health to analyze their links to cognitive decline and dementias such as Alzheimer's disease, including differences across population groups.
The team says dementia risk builds across the life course, and intervening only after midlife is often too late; moving the research starting point back to childhood and schooling can reveal earlier windows for prevention. The award will fund data integration, research collaboration and training of early-career scholars.
(Source: University of Maryland)
Source: University of Maryland
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