Meetings/Webinars

Duke Anethesiology

Neurocognitive Outcomes Research Group Mini-Symposium

May 27, 2025 | 1:30PM to 5:30PM | Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education

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ADRC-NCRBH-ALZ-Library Program

The Empowered Dementia Caregiver: Supporting independence

June 17, 2025 | 6:30PM | Virtual

People living with dementia want to remain independent for as long as possible yet caregivers may not know how to balance safety and independence. Learn how dementia changes a person’s independence and impacts safety, how to provide the right amount of support, and tips to make every activity meaningful to the person living with dementia.

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Funding Opportunities

Duke/unc ADRC

Developmental Projects – Call for Applications

The goal of the ADRC developmental project program is to stimulate and support innovative, high potential lines of research related to our theme: to identify age-related changes across the lifespan that contribute to the development, progression, or experience of AD.

Letters of intent are request by Friday, July 18, 2025

Full applications will be due 11:59pm EST on Monday, November 3, 2025

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CCAD

Early Career Investigators Nominations

CCAD supports early-career scientists by providing research grants and training in the processes of National Institute of Health (NIH) study sections. CCAD seeks to fund research that may be less commonly funded through traditional mechanisms and additionally encourages proposals that have a focus beyond amyloid and/or tau. The CCAD advisory board invites you to nominate an early-career scientist, to compete for one (potentially two) $100,000 2-year awards.

Nominees must meet the criteria below:

• Have obtained a Ph.D. within the last 8 years OR an MD within the last 12 years from the date the conference is to be held
• Have a Post Doc, Fellowship, or Faculty position no higher than Assistant Professor at an institution based in the United States
• NOT have been or currently be a Principal Investigator (PI) or any NIH-funded R01, Program Project or Center grant by the date the conference is to be held.

Please submit your nominations by June 13, 2025

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Lewy Body Dementia Association

2025 LBDA 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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Lewy Body Dementia Association

2025 LBDA Research Project Award – Economic Burden of LBD

The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) Research Project Award supports scientific investigations in areas identified by the LBDA as strategic research priorities and that address unmet needs of people with LBD and their care partners.  The objective of the LBDA Research Project Award for 2025 is to capture the economic impact of LBD in the United States. This includes both:

1. impact on people with LBD, care partners, and families
2. impact on the healthcare system and community resources compared to age-matched, non-LBD affected families in the United States.

The program is open to investigators at US-based institutions.

Under this request for applications, LBDA intends to fund one award for up to $150,000

Full details are available on the Request for Applications

Application Due Date: August 11, 2025

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In the News

The national Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center

Congratulations to Nicole Scott-Hewitt, PhD – NACC new Investigator Awardee!

The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) and the Alzheimer’s Association announced the 2025 recipients of the New Investigator Award Program on Tuesday, May 6, at the Spring ADRC Meeting in San Francisco, CA.  This year, the program funded 10 new investigators with $135k in direct funds each from across the National Institute on Aging’s (NIA) Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRC). This funding program is dedicated to mentoring and funding early career investigators focused on advancing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias discovery and translation.

Nicole’s project: “Investigating RNA-Dependent Neuroimmune Interactions in Alzheimer’s Disease” was selected from over 130 proposals across 34 Centers.

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Save the Date!

Duke/UNC ADRC REC

IDEAS Forum: ADRD Research from UNC Neurology & Psychiatry

June 5, 2025 | 4:00PM EST | Virtual

Presenters:

Miles Bryan, PhD

Research Associate, UNC Department of Neurology

CHIP “NP”: and unexpected and puzzling gene therapy for AD?

Melissa Walsh, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNC Department of Psychiatry

Bringing Reproductive Psychiatry and Alzheimer’s Risk: A Neurosteroid Perspective

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Duke/UNC ADRC

ADRC All Hands Seminar Series

June 24, 2025 | 12:30pm | Virtual

“Proteomics of CSF Obtained Before and After Surgery to Uncover Delirium Mechanism”

Michael Devinney, MD, PhD