{"id":6403,"date":"2010-02-17T14:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-news\/?p=573"},"modified":"2010-02-17T14:39:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:39:59","slug":"green-killiany-to-receive-adni-grant-for-alzheimers-disease-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2010\/02\/17\/green-killiany-to-receive-adni-grant-for-alzheimers-disease-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Green &amp; Killiany to Receive ADNI Grant for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. Green, MD, MPH, co-director, Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Clinical &amp; Research Program and professor of Neurology, Genetics and Epidemiology and Ron Killiany, PhD, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and associate professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology will be awarded an Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) grant. This GO grant is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).\u00a0 BU is one site sharing funding on this multi-center study, which is led overall by Michael Weiner of U. C. San Francisco. The grant will develop standards for obtaining longitudinal, multi-site MRI and PET data on patients with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and normal controls; generate a data repository that outlines longitudinal changes in brain structure and metabolism; and test a series of hypotheses based on clinical and biomarker data.  Enrollment of subjects begins in April 2010.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-575\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2010\/02\/bobgreenphoto-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Green\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert C. Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Green\u2019s research interests are in early and preclinical detection, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.\u00a0 Dr. Green is Principal Investigator and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/research\/genetics\/reveal\/index.html\">REVEAL<\/a> Study (Risk Evaluation and Education for Alzheimer\u2019s disease) a multi-center project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute on Aging to develop genetic risk assessment strategies for individuals at risk for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. He also serves as associate director of the NIH-funded Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-584\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-584\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2010\/02\/RonK-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Killiany, PhD\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Killiany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Killiany&#8217;s research has been focused on exploring the relationship between brain structure and behavior. To a large extent, the studies have focused on the morphological changes that take place in the brain during aging and disease processes. In recent years, his work includes studies aimed at exploring the value of MRI in predicting which subjects will progress to develop cognitive decline of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and which will remain cognitively stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. Green, MD, MPH, co-director, Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Clinical &amp; Research Program and professor of Neurology, Genetics and Epidemiology and Ron Killiany, PhD, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and associate professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology will be awarded an Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) grant. This GO grant is funded by the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403"}],"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\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}