Catherine Kaczorowski, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a $418,000 grant to further her research of Alzheimer’s disease and memory failure.
The grant was awarded by the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, and will be funded over the next two years.
The grant, titled, “Mapping AD Memory Failure: Molecules to Connectivity of Brain Network,” will allow Dr. Kaczorowski and her team to employ a novel approach to identify new molecules that underlie unusual changes in the functional connectivity of neurons across multiple brain regions (i.e., network coherence) and monitor how these changes contribute to memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease. Overall, this project also aims to discover biomarkers that could be used to detect potential onset of Alzheimer's disease in advance, so treatment could begin earlier with better success rates.