The National Institutes of Health awarded a 5-year, $19 million renewal grant to the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP), the largest family history study of Alzheimer’s disease in the world. The funding will allow researchers to better detect brain changes that occur in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease through expanded collection of spinal fluid and brain imaging.
“Alzheimer’s Disease may begin decades before its symptoms are evident. We still don’t know why some people get the disease and others do not, but the WRAP study is on the path to answer these questions and these new early-detection tests are critical,” said Sterling Johnson, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and principal investigator of WRAP.
Researchers established WRAP at the University of Wisconsin in 2001. Today the study follows more than 1,500 participants, nearly three-fourths of them with a parental history of the disease.
Read the full press release from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
"World's largest family history study of Alzheimer's disease looking for additional participants" aired on WMTV Channel 15 on November 12, 2018.
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