Congratulations to Sterling Johnson, study leader of the Clarity in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI) study, which has been awarded a $150 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide imaging and blood-based biomarkers for researchers to advance the field of ADRD. The CLARiTI study will involve 37 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers in the U.S., with the aim of gathering data showing the presence, absence, or change in characteristic disease biomarkers in people who have dementia or are at risk of developing it.
Johnson is the Jean R. Finley Professor of Geriatrics and Dementia in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology and the Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute. Johnson leads the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP), a longitudinal cohort study of over 1700 people at varying levels of risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Congratulations to Sterling and the CLARiTI team!