How UNT's Largest-Ever Grant Will ‘Change the World’ Through Alzheimer’s Research

How UNT's Largest-Ever Grant Will ‘Change the World’ Through Alzheimer’s Research   We profiled Dr. Sid O’Bryant (and his work in Alzheimer’s research)  in 2014, as he was fretting about whether a National Institutes of Health grant funding his work would get renewed.    Bryant, the executive director of the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Institute for Translational Research, now has $150 million to fund a large-scale study on the biology of Alzheimer’s disease among different races, using a health disparities framework to study how the disease affects the brains of African American, Hispanic, and White patients.    The grant is one of the largest awards ever given to Alzheimer’s research, and the largest ever received by the UNT system.   Read more