| Part of CNDR and focused on research in Alzheimer's disease, Penn's Alzheimer's Disease Core Center (ADCC) provides funds to support pilot research projects.
In years past, pilot research projects - one in a joint effort with the Institute for Medicine and Engineering - were funded as one-year, non-renewable grants, with funding at up to $28,000, to support pilot research projects on the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis or management of dementia of the Alzheimer's type or related conditions.
Beginning in 2008, Penn ADCC will fund two pilot research projects at $50,000 each, again to support pilot research projects on the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis or management of dementia of the Alzheimer's type or related conditions for one year.
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Pilot Research Grants for FY 2007: |
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Development of zebrafish expressing human tau as a model for Alzheimer's disease. (by Rita Balice-Gordon, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience) |
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Histone deacetylase 6, the misfolded protein response and neurodegeneration. (by J. Paul Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurology) |
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Hippocampus-specific analysis of brain activity: Application to fMRI studies of semantic learning in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia. (by Paul A. Yushkevich, Department of Radiology; In
collaboration with the Institute for Medicine and Engineering)
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