Indigenous-led team secures $24M for transformative brain health research – Brighter World
April 8, 2025
An Indigenous-led group of university and community-based researchers have been awarded $24 million in funding to transform brain health and develop a bundle of dementia assessment tools that will benefit Indigenous groups across Canada and internationally.
The bundle of assessment tools, funded through the New Frontiers in Research Fund Transformation Stream Competition, will be developed over the next six years and include validated instruments for assessing dementia, and may also consider depression, cognition, function, and quality of life. These tools will be culturally safe, trauma-informed, and tailored to the unique needs of Indigenous communities.
The Landmark Study released by the Alzheimer Society of Canada in 2024 estimated that by 2050, the number of people with Indigenous ancestry living with Alzheimer’s disease will increase by 273 per cent.
