The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD, the John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer's Research, a $7.5 million, five-year renewal grant to expand a Penn-based comprehensive research program studying the origins and progression of frontotemporal dementia. Department members Drs. Vivianna Van Deerlin, John Trojanowski, and Gerard Schellenberg are also included in the grant.
Read the Department of Communications announcement.