BLOOMINGTON, Minn., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- William H. Frey II, PhD, Director of the Alzheimer’s Research Center at HealthPartners Research Foundation, was awarded a $200,000 grant to study the use of his Intranasal Drug Delivery system towards developing a treatment for dementia among Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patients. The grant was awarded through the National Institute of Mental Health.
“This study will not only increase our knowledge of dementia in patients with AIDS,” said Frey. “It will also increase our understanding of the more common dementia, Alzheimer’s disease.”
With new anti-viral treatments, patients infected with HIV are living longer. As these HIV patients age, dementia is becoming an increasing problem.
The grant is for one year and will be a collaborative effort with the Northern California Institute for Research and Education and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. Lynn Pulliam, PhD of the University of California San Francisco, a nationally known expert on AIDS dementia, is the principal collaborator on the project.
HealthPartners Research Foundation
HealthPartners Research Foundation supports and promotes research throughout the HealthPartners family of nonprofit health care organizations. Its mission is to advance scientific knowledge through research to improve the health of HealthPartners members and the community. HealthPartners Research Foundation was formed in 1998 by the merger of the Group Health Foundation and the Ramsey Foundation. It continues to build on the long history of research established by the two previous foundations. Please visit the HealthPartners web site at http://www.hprf.org/ .
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