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• Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging Boosts Funds for Research Grants
  The Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging, a public-private effort between the national Institute on Aging (NIA) and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) established to promote the study of brain function with age, will award an estimated $28 million over the next five years in 17 research grants to examine the neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging and explore interventions that may prevent, reduce or reverse cognitive decline in older people. The partnership, led by the NIA, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking ways to maintain cognitive health - the ability to think, learn and remember - into old age. More...
• Grants Awarded for 2009 Funding Cycle
  

  With joint support from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation and the National Institute on Aging, this initiative funds cognitive aging research through a program of peer reviewed grants in the following areas:

  1. Interventions to remediate age-related cognitive decline, and
  2. Neural and behavioral profiles of cognitive function in aging.

  In 2009, grants will be awarded to six applicants in the first category, and 11 in the second category, for a total of 17 funded grant awards.

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• New Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research Program The purpose of the MBRF is to support research of the brain in age related memory loss intended for clinical application. To further fulfill the purpose of the MBRF, an amendment to the endowment from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) to the University of Florida will established a new Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research Program - CAM-CTRP More...
• MBRF to Host Third Inter-Institutional Meeting
• Cognitive Aging Summit II scheduled for 2010

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