# Environmental Exposome as a Driver of Race/Ethnicity Differences in Alzheimer's Disease

> **NIH NIH R01** · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · $1,205,827

## Abstract

Project Summary
This project seeks to examine the role of the exposome as a significant risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) among non-Hispanic whites, African Americans and Mexican Americans. This work
will utilize blood samples from the 3,000 participants in the ongoing Health & Aging Brain Study
– Health Disparities study (NIA, U19AG078109). This work can lead to strategies to lower
environmental exposures in at-risk populations in order to reduce their risk for developing AD.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10985843
- **Project number:** 1R01AG085279-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** DWIGHT C. German
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,205,827
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-08-01 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10985843

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10985843, Environmental Exposome as a Driver of Race/Ethnicity Differences in Alzheimer's Disease (1R01AG085279-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10985843. Licensed CC0.

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