Grants Shine Light on CVL Faculty

For the second year in a row, two CVL faculty members have been awarded grants from the AWARE Fund of the Dallas Foundation to further their Alzheimer’s research. Dr. Chandramallika Basak’s Lifespan Neuroscience & Cognition Lab and Dr. Kristen Kennedy’s Neuroimaging of Aging Cognition Lab were awarded the grants this year.

Dr. Basak says this grant will allow her lab to study neurocognition using wearable neuroimaging devices and engage in a new line of research on aging and early markers of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Kennedy’s lab is focusing on testing the theory that Alzheimer’s disease is partly caused by a severe decline in the brain’s energy system by examining neurometabolites using MRI scanning on one of the country’s most advanced ultrahigh field (7 Tesla) scanners.

The AWARE Fund invited Dr. Basak to host a Brain Games workshop during its annual fundraiser. She was joined by members of her lab including Micaela Andreo, Paulina Skolasinska, and Chris Elliott.  

AWARE is a component fund of The Dallas Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) publicly supported charity. Each year, they conduct grant reviews to carefully select and award research institutions that are at the forefront of medical research in the treatment, prevention, and cure of Alzheimer’s disease.