2021

This is the final issue for 2021 where we have the final piece of A Way Forward, and our usual piece on a CCAD Alumni Spotlight.

A Way Forward is a four-part series dedicated to sharing these challenges with the CCAD community, along with ways to help address them and contribute to their resolution.

We believe diversity in ideas leads to better medical research, and to achieve this, it is important to identify and address individual, community and institutional challenges scientists face that hold us back as a community. The third piece is written by Jacqueline Helpern. To read her article click on the button below.

I started my career as a basic neuroscientist studying brain circuit mechanisms related to the sense of smell and then memory. While I was studying on basic research during my PhD, my grandmother started to show symptoms of AD. Even though I got my postdoc training in memory research, I again could not do anything for my grandmother – as no cure existed at that time.

CCAD Connections Welcome to summer! As restrictions begin to lift and logistics around COVID-19 change with the success of vaccines, we are excited to proceed with this year’s conference from September 16- 18, 2021, in Charleston, SC. We are also looking ahead to 2022 which marks the tenth anniversary of the Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s

Looking back at the path that led me to start my own research group, I see the Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s disease as certainly one of the significant early steps. The goal of my proposal, for which I was generously recognized with a New Vision Award, was to characterize peripheral regulation of synaptic plasticity in the context of aging and Alzheimer’s-associated genetic backgrounds, including APOE4.

A Way Forward is a four-part series dedicated to sharing these challenges with the CCAD community, along with ways to help address them and contribute to their resolution.

We believe diversity in ideas leads to better medical research, and to achieve this, it is important to identify and address individual, community and institutional challenges scientists face that hold us back as a community. The Second piece is written by CCAD Alumni Georgia Hodes and edited by Jacqueline Helpern. To read her article click on the button below.

The NIH Common Fund will hold pre-application interactive Q&A webinars for funding opportunities for the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. NIH program and review staff will discuss the funding opportunities and answer questions from prospective applicants. Participation in the webinars is optional. Pre-registration for the webinars is required, and participants should email their questions ahead of time.

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