New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease

Projects in basic and translational research related to Alzheimer's disease (AD) that are clinically relevant, will be considered. For one of the awards, priority may be given to an investigator with a research interest related to healthy brain aging. Areas of research could for example include learning and memory, nutrition, exercise, cardiovascular risk factors, as they relate to the brain and the aging process. Examples of promising areas of research include, but are not limited to:
* Basic mechanisms of aging in the central nervous system
* Learning and memory
* Genetics of AD
* Neuroimaging and precursors of AD
* Cellular and Molecular pathways of AD
* Biological Markers of AD
* Exercise, nutrition and dietary factors
* Neurogenesis and AD
* Impact of environmental agents in CNS aging and early AD
  Inflammation
* Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular factors
* Drug discovery
The applicant must be within the first ten years of receiving a doctoral degree by July 1, 2011. The proposed research must be conducted at any type of not-for-profit setting in the United States or Israel.