The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Seshadri, Sudha
Funded by
NIH-NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS & STROKE
Collaborating Institutions
Boston University Clevland UC Davis UT Health Houston Vermon Washington
Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (SVD) is an important, potentially modifiable factor for clinical dementia. Recent data suggest that the age-specific incidence of dementia may be decreasing, partly as a result of bettermanagement of vascular risk factors, lending urgency to dementia prevention trials but a major impediment isthe absence of circulating biomarkers for tracking onset and progression of SVD.
As one of the world’s leading independent biomedical research institutions, Texas Biomedical Research Institute is dedicated to advancing the health of our global community through innovative biomedical research.
Principal Investigator(s)
Kaushal, Deepak
Funded by
National Institutes of Health
Collaborating Institutions
Washington University in St. Louis
The major goal is to understand the role of the iBALT in the development of a protective granuloma using both outbred mice and nonhuman primates. Role: MPI