{"id":2466,"date":"2024-06-12T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:58:10","slug":"laura-raffield-receives-u01-grant-from-nia-for-project-on-the-mechanisms-behind-racial-disparities-in-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/2024\/06\/laura-raffield-receives-u01-grant-from-nia-for-project-on-the-mechanisms-behind-racial-disparities-in-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Raffield receives U01 grant from NIA for project on the mechanisms behind racial disparities in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/dr-laura-raffield-receives-new-u01-grant-from-the-national-institute-on-aging\/\">Laura Raffield has received a U01 grant from NIA<\/a> for a proposal to investigate the higher risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and related dementias (ADRD) for Black adults compared with non-Hispanic White adults. The project &#8220;<em>hypothesize[s] that inflammation may be a key feature linking cardiometabolic and social determinants of health disparities with the risk of incident cognitive impairment and dementia<\/em>&#8221; and will investigate that hypothesis using existing and new proteomic and genomic data from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study, a cohort of 30,239 non-Hispanic Black and White adults.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Laura!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Raffield has received a U01 grant from NIA for a proposal to investigate the higher risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and related dementias (ADRD) for Black adults compared with non-Hispanic White adults. The project &#8220;hypothesize[s] that inflammation may be a key feature linking cardiometabolic and social determinants of health disparities with the risk of incident &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/2024\/06\/laura-raffield-receives-u01-grant-from-nia-for-project-on-the-mechanisms-behind-racial-disparities-in-alzheimers-disease\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Laura Raffield receives U01 grant from NIA for project on the mechanisms behind racial disparities in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/raffieldlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}