Leon Thal, Director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UCSD, heads 70-site consortium funded by National Institutes of HealthThe Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), a federally established consortium directed by Leon Thal, M.D., Director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, will receive $52 million over six years to conduct several new clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today. The award is the third renewal of a cooperative agreement between the NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA) and UC San Diego, which coordinates the consortium of nearly 70 research sites in the United States and Canada. >>> Discuss This Story
