Our Impact
Since 2017, the Dance Party to End ALZ has raised over $1.8 million to fund diverse and exciting Alzheimer's and dementia research — from studying the impacts of genetics and sleep on the brain, to developing a smartwatch-based intervention to help reduce risk factors for dementia.
Fully funded research
Learn more about projects that have been fully funded thanks to the over $1.8 million raised by the Dance Party to End ALZ:
- Kendra Ray, Ph.D., Menorah Home and Hospital (Brooklyn, NY), Beyond Listening: A Music-Based Caregiver Intervention.
- Nicole Spartano, Ph.D., Boston Medical Center Corporation (Boston, MA), Physical Inactivity, Epigenetic Aging, and Preclinical Dementia.
- Alexander Conley, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN), Aging in Down Syndrome: Cholinergic System and Alzheimer’s Pathology.
- Agnieszka Burzynska, Ph.D., Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO), White Matter: a Target for Lifestyle Interventions to Prevent Dementia.
- Mary Ellen Koran, M.D., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN), Characterizing cervical lymphatic flow in aging and Alzheimer's disease.
Partially funded research
Learn more about projects that have been partially funded thanks to the over $1.8 million raised by the Dance Party to End ALZ:
- Ravi Allada, M.D., Northwestern University – Evanston Campus (Evanston, IL), Discovery of novel mechanisms by which sleep modulates Aß toxicity.
- Raina Croff, Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, OR), A neighborhood approach to increase physical activity and social engagement.
- Chooza Moon, Ph.D., University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), Circadian Rhythm, Sleep, and Brain in Aging.
- Kaitlin Casaletto, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA), Do lifestyles induce cell plasticity? A molecular query across human trials.
- Yoshimi Fukuoka, Ph.D., University of California (San Francisco, CA), Developing an AI Based Lifestyle Intervention for Prevention of Dementia.
- Kelsie Full, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN), Leveraging Longitudinal Cohort Data to Assess Sleep as a Risk Factor for AD.
- Jamaine Davis, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN), ApoE Lipid Transport by ABCA7 Genetic Variants.
- Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Ph.D., Boston University (Boston, MA), Modifiable Environmental Exposures in Relation to Brain Health.
- U.S. POINTER: A Lifestyle Intervention Trial to Support Brain Health and Prevent Cognitive Decline.
