Meetings/Webinars

Frontiers in molecular medicine

Empowering Proteomics and Transcriptomics in Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery

From March 27, 2025

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UNC – chapel hill academic lecture

Machine Learning in Neuroimaging: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Brain Aging, Neurodegeneration, Psychiatric Disease, and Building Personalized Imaging Biomarkers

Thursday, May 15th | G-100 Bondurant Hall

Presenter: Christos Davatzikos, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

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Funding Opportunities

Alzheimer’s Disease Strategic Fund

Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia – Understanding Mechanisms of Dysfunction (VCID-UMD)

This new funding call builds off the last ten years of work to better understand VCID and its contributions to AD/ ADRD pathogenesis by targeting scientific questions on how VCID may intersect with immune, lipid and endolysosomal related functions to contribute to disease. This funding call will be supported through an innovative funding model, the Alzheimer’s Disease Strategic Fund, established in 2019 to support studies that advance our understanding of mechanistic and underpinning biology of disease.

Letter of Intent Now Open! Must be submitted online at http://proposalcentral.com

• Letter of Intent Deadline: May 30, 2025 | 5PM EST
• Letter of Intent Notifications: Week of July 8, 2025
• Application Deadline (if invited to submit a full application): August 12, 2025 | 5PM EST

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Lewy Body Dementia Association

2025LBDA Mentorship Program Award

The goal of this program is to promote the continued development of newly trained clinician-researchers (MDs or PhDs, or equivalent), or experienced clinician-researchers new to LBD, into world-class LBD investigators through mentorship. The program focuses on the mentorship of young or experienced investigators committed to clinical research in the Lewy body dementia arena by seasoned, established LBD investigators.

This award is meant to offer a supplement to support mentorship on an otherwise funded project and is not meant to support the project itself.

Under this request for applications, LBDA intends to fund up to four awards. Full details are available on the  Request for Applications.

• Letters of Intent Due – May 30, 2025
• Application Due Date – June 23, 2025

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Alzheimer’s Research Program (AZRP)

The AZRP released program announcements for the following funding opportunities:

• Transforming Care Award
• Transforming Diagnosis Award
• Transforming Research Award

To view the program announcements and submit a pre-application visit:  https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663104

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In the News

Duke/unc adrc

Dr. Heather Whitson Advances the Science of the Aging Brain

As featured on CBS 60 Minutes

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Kudos!

Dr. Kim G. Johnson selected as a panelist for the Clinical Core Session at the 2025 Spring ADRC Meeting!

The 30-minute panel is planned to be highly interactive, welcoming real-time audience Q&A. The panel tropic is called “UDv4: Finding and Developing Efficiencies”. It will be moderated by Dr. Greg Jicha. Dr. Johnson will share tips from the Duke/UNC ADRC’s smooth experience with the transition to UDS version 4 data collection.

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Congratulations to Maria Marquine & Rebecca North for their #TopViewedArticle published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia

on behalf of Alzheimer’s Association, has ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the journal in 2023*

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Save the Date!

Duke IPEC

“Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s”

Tuesday, May 13th | 5:30PM EST | Great Hall, Trent Semans

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Duke/UNC ADRC

ADRC 101

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 12:30pm | Virtual

ADRC information session featuring presentations by Center Directors:
Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS & Gwenn A. Garden, MD, PhD

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Coming in May

Duke/UNC ADRC RFA for Developmental Projects!