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Cognitive Aging Summit II, October 3-5,
2010 J.W. Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
Video: CASII Part 1: Opening Remarks through session III
Video: CASII Part 2: Session IV through Closing Remarks
A second Cognitive Aging Summit was held on October 3-5, 2010, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC. The second Summit built upon the success of the first Cognitive Aging Summit held in October, 2007, by bringing together experts in a variety of research fields to discuss advances in understanding the aging brain and the behavioral and cognitive changes associated with normal aging combined with selective preliminary progress reports from the 2009 cycle of award recipients.
Like the first Summit, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) convened the meeting under a grant from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). The second Cognitive Aging Summit brought together 350 scientists from diverse disciplines to discuss critical questions in age-related brain and cognitive research and explore future avenues of research. The summit created tremendous excitement among researchers about building a more collaborative approach toward profiling brain health and cognitive function across the lifespan and developing healthy cognitive aging interventions. Following a key note address asking the questions “What Do We know and What’s Next”, the presentations focused on a “Mechanisms of Age Related Cognitive Changes and Targets for Intervention” with discussion on Genetics/Epigenetics; Neural Circuits/ Network Plasticity; Inflammatory, Oxidative and Metabolic Processes; Social Interactions and Stress. The concluding half-day segment of the Summit dealt with the development of clinical trials in which considerations for design and new opportunities were considered and discussed. To view the video of the proceeding of Cognitive Aging Summit II, please click on the following link.
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McKnight Brain Research Foundation Hosts Third Inter-Institutional Meeting
Development of new therapies to prevent, delay or slow age-related memory loss requires inter-disciplinary efforts, say research scientists who met on April 28-30, 2010, at the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida.
The meeting, hosted by the trustees of the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF), brought together more than 90 research scientists from each of the four MBRF-funded institutions.
The directors and their respective research teams from the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institutes at the University of Alabama, the University of Arizona and the University of Florida and the Evelyn F. McKnight Center for Age Related Memory Loss at the University of Miami gathered to discuss the research in progress and the various collaborations between and among the scientists at each of the four institutions. More...
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.
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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:
- Interventions to remediate age-related cognitive decline, and
- 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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The Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Research Foundation®
The Foundation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and will fund worthy proposals from domestic public charities, universities or colleges or from qualified individuals who apply with a sponsorship of an organization which is tax exempt for United States federal income tax purposes. |
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