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   What is the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC)?

   • The Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC) supports researchers and our surrounding community in their pursuit of answers that will lead to improved diagnosis and care for persons with Alzheimer disease (AD). Our Center is committed to the long-term goal of finding a way to effectively treat and prevent AD.

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   Can high-risk research end Alzheimer's?

   • Driving innovative research around the world to end Alzheimer’s, we identify high-risk, high-reward projects that have the most promise to change the trajectory of the disease.

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   Who founded Alzheimer's Research Center?

   • The St. Louis Chapter of the National Alzheimer’s Association initially was founded in 1981 by Berg and family members of MAP participants. Major NIH-grants funded in 1984 and 1985 (see below) established the Alzheimer Disease research Center (ADRC) with Berg as Center Director.

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   Who is a member of the Knight ADRC?

   • The Knight ADRC supports junior faculty as well as regional, national and international scholars. Among others, investigators from Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey have completed visiting fellowships at the Knight ADRC.

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2. science.brightfocus.org › research › alzheimersAlzheimer's Disease Research | BrightFocus Foundation

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   Since 1985, the Alzheimer's Disease Research (ADR) program has awarded nearly $170 million to support promising research in fields ranging from molecular biology to genetics to epidemiology. ADR is currently supporting 167 outstanding biomedical researcher projects. Request for Proposal. Highlights. Grants Notification.

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   The Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC) supports researchers and our surrounding community in their pursuit of answers that will lead to improved diagnosis and care for persons with Alzheimer disease (AD).

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   The MAP evolved into two major grants that have been continuously funded by the National Institute on Aging of the NIH. The program project, Healthy Aging and Senile Dementia (HASD), awarded first in 1984, and then the Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC),awarded in 1985. In the 1990s clinical-neuropathological studies from these grants ...

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   Development of a clinical tool to determine the absence or presence of dementia, and where present to stage its severity.  The Clinical Dementia Rating Scale or CDR®1,2involves experienced clinicia...

   Independence of clinical evaluation from neuropsychological and biomarker assessments to enhance scientific rigor.  The CDR is scored without reference to neuropsychological tests, biomarker result...

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   The concept of preclinical disease emerged through examination of the brains of cognitively normal older adults individuals3 and molecular biomarker studies of middle-aged, cognitively normal indiv...

   The routine collection of multiple biomarker modalities for correlation with clinical and cognitive data was accomplished by major investment of resource in amyloid and tau imaging and biofluid tec...

   Examination of race and its effects, social and biological, on AD risk, clinical and biological manifestations, and neuropathology.  The ADRC was one of the first centers to engage the African Amer...

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   We empower people facing Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and their loved ones with free expert resources, community events, film screenings, audio and video programming, and so much more. Join an upcoming conversation with brain and eye experts, live or on-demand:

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   Alzheimer's Disease Research, Clarksburg, Maryland. 76,006 likes · 327 were here. Alzheimer's Disease Research, a program of BrightFocus, drives innovative research worldwide and promotes awareness...

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   Explore 50 Years of Bold Research Breakthroughs. BrightFocus Foundation, through our signature programs Alzheimer's Disease Research, Macular Degeneration Research, and National Glaucoma Research, is on a mission to cure Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and stop vision loss in its tracks.