# Coordinating Center for the NIA Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Related Dementias

> **NIH NIH R24** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $308,105

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Now in its 27th year, the NIA Demography and Economics of Aging Centers Program has been successful in
accomplishing the main objectives of developing both innovative lines of research and the next generation of
scholars in the demography and economics of aging. The field of aging has expanded rapidly over this period,
and the D&E Centers have played a key role. New areas and new directions have emerged (e.g., population
genetics, biomeasure collection within national population-based surveys), largely as a result of increasing cross-
disciplinary collaborations encouraged by the Centers. The D&E Centers Coordinating Center has been a
keystone in this research infrastructure, promoting synergy and efficiency and maximizing the effectiveness and
impact of the Program overall. This is achieved through the functions of the Coordinating Center, which serves
as the nexus of communication, streamlining information-sharing across the D&E Centers, with NIA, and to the
public.
The Coordinating Center has been housed at the University of Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging
(MiCDA) for nearly the entire history of the Program. This proposal builds on the successful model instituted by
the MiCDA Coordinating Center to create a new independent Coordinating Center, with all the advantage of
established connections, significant substantive expertise, and ready infrastructure on which to build and expand.
The new Coordinating Center will expand its substantive purview to include Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's
Disease Related Dementias (ADRD). To maximize the growth of cross disciplinary research, its mission will also
expand to promote collaborative work between the D&E Centers and other NIA Centers, each with different
mission, cultures, and ethos. A major thrust of effort will be on supporting early career investigators to embark
on collaborations across NIA Centers. Lastly, the Coordinating Center will collaborate with the Population
Reference Bureau (PRB) to produce dissemination materials with broad appeal that are aggregated and
synthesized research findings from the Centers. Partnering with PRB magnifies the impact of the Program
research manifold.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10194345
- **Project number:** 5R24AG066588-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Amanda Jane Sonnega
- **Activity code:** R24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $308,105
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10194345

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10194345, Coordinating Center for the NIA Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Related Dementias (5R24AG066588-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10194345. Licensed CC0.

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