Boston University School of Medicine’s Michael Alosco, an assistant professor of neurology, has received a five-year, $793,000 K23 Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
The K23 Award is a grant, formally known as the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award. Its purpose is to support the career development of individuals with a clinical doctoral degree who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research.
Repetitive brain trauma has been associated with later-life neurological disorders, including the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. To date, the only way to diagnose CTE is through brain autopsy.
Dr. Alosco will use MRI data and biomarkers to examine patterns of white matter alterations in former NFL players compared to healthy individuals, as well as those with Alzheimer’s disease dementia.
“This research will allow our group to investigate the relationship between exposure to repetitive head impacts and white matter alterations in former NFL players, as well as investigate the association between white matter alterations with later-life clinical function and proposed biomarkers of CTE,” he explained.
Dr. Alosco completed his pre-doctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. In 2015, he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship through the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Translational Research Training Program. In 2016, Alosco received a National Research Service Award from NINDS to continue his advanced clinical research training.
Dr. Alosco was the recipient of the American Psychological Association Early Graduate Student Research Award in 2012. He received the Kent State University David B. Smith Award in 2014, an award that provides recognition for the most outstanding graduate student at Kent State University. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Adult Cognitive Disorders. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society.
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