{"id":53349,"date":"2017-12-20T14:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=53349"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:36:54","slug":"karin-schon-receives-149k-alzheimers-association-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/12\/20\/karin-schon-receives-149k-alzheimers-association-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Karin Schon Receives $149K Alzheimer\u2019s Association Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53350\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/12\/Schon_AAaward-636x413.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Kelsey Gosselin, manager of Medical Research Engagement at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association; Karin Schon, PhD, assistant professor of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology; and Robert Stern, PhD, director of the BU Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Center Clinical Core.\" width=\"636\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/12\/Schon_AAaward-636x413.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/12\/Schon_AAaward-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/12\/Schon_AAaward-1024x664.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Kelsey Gosselin, manager of Medical Research Engagement at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association;<br \/>Karin Schon, PhD, assistant professor of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology; and Robert Stern, PhD, director of the BU Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Center Clinical Core.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, Dec. 20, Assistant Professor of Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology Karin Schon, PhD, was awarded nearly $150,000 by the MA\/NH Chapter of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association for her research, \u201cPerceived Racism as a Chronic Stressor and Cognition in Black Seniors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schon and her colleagues have proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/alz.org\/research\/alzheimers_grants\/for_researchers\/overview-2017.asp?grants=2017schon\">series of studies<\/a> to explore how chronic stress arising from racism affects the brain structure and function in people of African ancestry. They will study a group of older African Americans living in Boston, as well as people of African ancestry living in the Virgin Islands where people of African ancestry represent the racial majority and presumably encounter less racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The research aims to generate important hypotheses about the role of racial discrimination in inducing brain changes associated with early Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The concept behind this research stemmed from conversations with Michael Rosario, an intern from the University of the Virgin Islands who worked in Schon\u2019s lab through the Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) Program in 2016. Today, he is a first-year PhD student in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences and will be conducting this work as part of his dissertation research.<\/p>\n<p>The Alzheimer\u2019s Association is the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer\u2019s research in the world, having awarded more than $375 million to more than 2,400 scientific investigations. Its mission is to eliminate Alzheimer\u2019s disease through the advancement of research, provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schon and her colleagues have proposed a series of studies to explore how chronic stress arising from racism affects the brain structure and function in people of African ancestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,143,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53355,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53349\/revisions\/53355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}