A team of researchers at The Keck School of Medicine of USC have received a $3.4 million federal grant to advance research on an innovative approach to slowing age-related cognitive decline. The award is from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency withing the U.
S. Department of Health and Human Services that funds transformational research to tackle tough health problems. The grant is part of ARPA-H's Sprint for Women's Health initiative to address critical unmet challenges in women's health, champion transformative innovations, and tackle health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women.
USC will receive $3.4 million in funding over two years through the Sprint for Women's Health spark track for early-stage research efforts. Young-Kwon Hong, PhD, Chief of the Division of Basic Science Research in the Department of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and his team are working on slowing age-related cognitive decline in women by helping the brain's lymphatic system clear more waste.
With their longer lifespans, aging women have a higher susceptibility to dementia and neurodegenerative disorders. Two out of every three patients diagnosed with cognitive decline are women." Dr.
Young-Kwon Hong, PhD, Chief of the Division of Basic Science Research in the Department of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC Dr. Hong and his team have already discovered a drug that may delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's dis.
