New NIH Grant: Tools and Resources to Understand Pathophysiology with Post-Mortem Studies of in vivo Neuroimaging F — $20K at Unknown Institution
WHY IT MATTERS
This research will help doctors develop better brain imaging tests that can catch Alzheimer's disease and related dementias earlier, potentially before symptoms become severe.
Researchers are receiving funding to study how brain imaging scans taken while people are alive compare to what they find when examining brain tissue after death. This work focuses on Alzheimer's disease and related memory disorders, and aims to confirm whether the imaging scans are accurately detecting the brain changes that cause these diseases.
Project: Tools and Resources to Understand Pathophysiology with Post-Mortem Studies of in vivo Neuroimaging Findings in AD and ADRD PI: GE, YULIN Institution: Unknown Institution Funding: $20K Start Date: 2026-05-07 Abstract: Summary: Neuroimaging and histopathology represent two cornerstone methodologies in the study of age-related cognitive impairment and dementia, each offering unique and complementary insights into underlying disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies. With the advancement of noninvasive imaging techniques aimed at probing the causal pathways and enabling robust early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD–related dementias (ADRD), there is a growing need for postmortem validation studies to confirm the pathological underpinnings of early imaging biomarkers – particularly those related