The National Institutes of Health will provide slightly more than $7.3 million over five years for the establishment at the School of Medicine of an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. The center will be directed by Victor Henderson, professor of health research and policy, and of neurology and neurological sciences; Tony Wyss-Coray, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, will serve as co-director.
Researchers plan to explore Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and related disorders. "We plan to study patients at early stages of illness, as well as healthy older adults," noted Henderson, "and to follow them over time—in many instances to autopsy." Stanford's program will be among more than two dozen such NIH-funded centers at major medical institutions in the United States.
