National Institutes Of Health Awards $26.5 Million Grant To Create New Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $26.5 million grant to Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) to create the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program (FHS-BAP). The program will continue the surveillance and evaluation of Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants for dementia, and will provide cognitive assessments and brain imaging. The program will also establish a platform to promote data sharing intended to accelerate Alzheimer’s disease research using FHS data, and will conduct three interrelated projects  The program builds on the FHS, a longitudinal, multi-generational study of cardiovascular health in the United States that began . . .