The NIH has awarded a $10.7 million 5-year renewal grant to Cleveland Clinic to expand a national research consortium focused on improving the diagnosis and treatments for dementia with Lewy bodies.
The Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium was established in 2017 and is a centralized effort to create a national, coordinated registry for clinical data.
The research team will be led by James Leverenz, MD, director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The study will use longitudinal data from expanded patient cohorts to identify biomarkers that can assist with