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SAN FRANCISCO VA AND UCSF GET GRANT FOR

ALZHEIMER'S, PARKINSON'S AND TBI -- The grant

will be used to improve equipment used to diagnose

and track neurodegenerative diseases.

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San Francisco’s VA Medical Center/UCSF scientists win $6M NIH grant

San Francisco Business Times - by Chris Rauber

A national research group based at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and headed by a UC San Francisco faculty member has won a $6 million biomedical technology grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The grant will be used to improve equipment used to diagnose and track neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and traumatic brain injuries, UCSF said Wednesday.

The research team is led by Dr. Michael Weiner, director of the Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at San Francisco’s VA hospital. The NIH grant is one of its Biomedical Technology Research Centers’ awards, and will be used to bolster development of MRI equipment to study diseases such as Alzheimer’s that attack that body’s neurological system.

The award will be administered by the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, a nonprofit research institute that functions as a mechanism to allow the VA, part of the federal government, to attract and accept grants from groups like NIH, according to institute spokesman Steve Tokar. The San Francisco VA center has the largest medical research program in the national VA system, officials say, staffed by more than 200 research scientists, all of whom -- like Weiner -- also hold faculty appointments at UCSF.

“Many potential treatments for Alzheimer’s are now in development,” said Weiner, a UCSF professor of radiology, medicine, psychiatry, and neurology. “It’s essential that we have the most sensitive possible imaging technologies at our disposal so that we can identify the most likely candidates for treatment, as well as monitor and assess the effects of these treatments in the brain.”

Weiner is principal investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, a $67 million nationwide study of how Alzheimer’s disease progresses. The hope is that such improved techniques can also be applied to the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of other neurological diseases and conditions. including post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, Gulf War illness, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, HIV dementia, and other forms of dementia.

crauber@bizjournals.com   / (415) 288-4946

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