New Alzheimer's prevention trial receives $74.5 million NIH grant

A new Alzheimer's prevention study has received a $74.5 million five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The two-part study will be conducted in members of the world's largest autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) kindred in Colombia who carry a genetic mutation that makes them all but destined to develop Alzheimer's and become cognitively impaired at an average age of 44.