# UNMC Training Program in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Drug Discovery

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · 2022 · $162,741

## Abstract

Abstract
With a critical need to establish a workforce of specialists in neurodegenerative diseases focusing on Alzheimer’s
disease, there is an increasing demand for multidisciplinary scientists in the biomedical research community.
Despite this significant need, there are few training programs that provide experience in academic and clinical
settings. This proposal for an Alzheimer’s Disease and Related-Dementia Drug Discovery training program is
critical to meeting that increased demand. The overall goal of this program is to fund five predoctoral students
from the Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine to become experienced leaders in interdisciplinary research with
the ability to collaborate effectively on cross-disciplinary teams with broad expertise to address challenges within
target-based drug discovery. The program will help the selected students to develop keen scientific rigor and
translational skills necessary to compete and excel in the future workplace, including but not limited to academic
institutions, government agencies, for-profit businesses, and private foundations. Importantly, the program
faculty are drawn from a wide array of disciplines with many active collaborations. Twelve mentors are dedicated
to this training program, all either tenured or in tenure track positions, with the experience and funding to
undertake their training and mentoring roles. These faculty will provide trainees with a unique program in which
to learn techniques and methodologies of collaborative research projects. The proposed training program is
composed of formal didactic courses, discussion-based journal clubs and seminars, shadowing of a clinician and
mentored research leading to a doctoral thesis and Ph.D. degree within 5.5 years of entering graduate school.
This innovative program will produce an outstanding output of trainees with high accomplishments that will in
turn catalyze our recruitment of the best students for this interdisciplinary training program at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10411479
- **Project number:** 1T32AG076407-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** HOWARD S FOX
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $162,741
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-06-01 → 2027-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10411479

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10411479, UNMC Training Program in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Drug Discovery (1T32AG076407-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10411479. Licensed CC0.

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