Researchers at the UBC Faculty of Medicine are leading the Vancouver site for an international study of Alzheimer’s disease in people of Asian ancestry, a population that has been vastly underrepresented in Alzheimer’s research to-date.
The project, which recently received a $40.6 million grant from the U.S.-based National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a collaboration between 16 academic medical centres across the United States and Canada. Together they have established the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer’s Disease (ACAD) – the first major Alzheimer’s disease genetics cohort for Asian Americans and Asian Canadians.
