I recently covered a briefing on brain research for the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center provided a fascinating update on how the university is using $70 million in National Institutes of Health funding to discover the possibility of treating people with early stage dementia, before it becomes debilitating. The discovery is something researchers couldn’t have done without NIH money because private sources of funding have dried up in brain research, he told congressional staffers. The story here.
