# Undergraduate Readying for Burgeoning Research for American Indian Neuroscientists

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · 2020 · $264,089

## Abstract

Project Summary
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States and accounts for a significant
burden on the family, society and the health care system. The National Institutes of Health has set a goal of
preventing or effectively treating AD by 2025. To meet this goal, we at the Center for Innovation in Brain Sciences
are mining large health care databases to look at current medications that delay or prevent AD. While strides
have been made to implement novel approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of AD, American Indian and
Alaska Native (AIAN) populations remain both understudied and underserved in this field of health. Under this
AD focused administrative supplement, we will develop a training program including a directed research
component to enable our AIAN undergraduate and graduate students to address questions surrounding the
optimal medical intervention to prevent, delay or treat Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.
The activities proposed under this administrative supplement to the Undergraduate Readying for Burgeoning
Research for American Indian Neuroscientists (URBRAIN, R25-NS107185), will draw on the unique constellation
of AD related expertise, AIAN focused educational programs, and data science resources at the University of
Arizona; including the URBRAIN program, the American Indian Research Center for Health (AIRCH, NIGMS
S06-GM127980), the translational neurodegenerative focused Center for Innovation in Brain Science, and
Arizona Translational Research into Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AZ-TRADD, T32-AG061897).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10122332
- **Project number:** 3R25NS107185-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- **Principal Investigator:** KATHLEEN E. RODGERS
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $264,089
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10122332

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10122332, Undergraduate Readying for Burgeoning Research for American Indian Neuroscientists (3R25NS107185-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10122332. Licensed CC0.

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