View Our 2020 Impact Report
The 2019-2020 fiscal year was productive for the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center. View our 2020 Impact Report here to learn about important scientific findings and programmatic achievements from this year.
Collaboration leads to Dlgap2 discoveries
A multi-institutional collaboration published findings that identify Dlgap2 as modifier of cognitive longevity in Diversity Outbred mice and associate the gene with Alzheimer's disease.
Connection between ATP8B1 gene and Alzheimer's resilience
Dr. Tim Hohman recently presented findings from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) that confirmed a link between resilience to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology and ATP8B1, a gene also involved with bile processing in the liver. Dr. Hohman's approach harmonized data from four different study cohorts, giving his team an exceptionally large sample size (5,108) to work with.
Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project Grant Renewal
We are excited to announce that funding for the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project (VMAP) has been renewed with an $18.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging. The size and scope of this grant is a testament to the quality of the data provided by the original research cohort and the dedication of VMAP's investigators and collaborators.
VMAP has supported numerous training grants for early career scientists. Among the project’s higher profile findings to date:
