Research Education Component
好色先生-ADRC Research Education Component (REC) Scholar Training Program
The REC Scholars Training Program is supported by our NIH Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Research Center (好色先生-ADRC) grant P30 AG072946. The program is aimed at junior investigators (assistant professors or clinical fellows) and will provide protected time/support for junior investigators from multidisciplinary fields to pursue mentored basic, translational, or clinical research in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) and related dementias. Awards are intended to provide seed funding/ protected time that will facilitate the initial testing of novel hypotheses that lead to national-level funding of an expanded research plan based on the pilot work. Scholars will follow a customized training plan to foster career development goals with mentored support. Training will be provided in a supportive and collaborative academic environment with experienced and dedicated training faculty.
The REC Scholars Training Program will generally be a 2-year appointment (if review of the Scholar鈥檚 performance and progress at the end of the first year is deemed acceptable). Successful applicants will be awarded $30,000 per year, which will generally be used for salary support to provide protected research time. However, up to $10,000 of this funding per year can be used to conduct pilot studies or other activities that will enhance the Scholar鈥檚 career development. Scholars will also receive an additional allotment of up to $10,000 in support per year for travel for workshops or experiential learning exchanges and to attend semi-annual national ADRC meetings.
T32
The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is the recipient of a $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to train the next generation of dementia researchers. The T32 training grant, entitled 鈥淭raining in Translational Research in Alzheimer鈥檚 and Related Dementias鈥 (or TRIAD), is the first Sanders-Brown Center on Aging training grant dedicated to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and related dementias.
Interested individuals should email either Linda Van Eldik, PhD, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Director, or Paul Murphy, PhD, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Associate Director for Education.