I n t e r - I n s t i t u t i o n a l M e e t i n g

The 13th Annual McKnight Brain Research Foundation Inter-Institutional Meeting “Power of Precision Aging Approaches to Brain Health & Cognition” was hosted by the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona, March 23-25.

We were very excited to participate in the 13th Annual McKnight Brain Research Foundation InterInstitutional meeting at University of Arizona EMBI and seeing our MBRF Trustees in-person, and colleagues and dear friends from other EMBIs Our entire EMBI core team was present at this meeting, and contributed to its great scientific success Our EMBI team conducted numerous discussions and in-person meetings with scientists and clinicians from other EMBIs, and created new collaborative team science partners We are grateful to the MBRF for sponsoring the event and to the UA EMBI for organizing and hosting it. It was a great reunion after the 2-year hiatus. Twenty UM EMBI members, collaborators and trainees attended. Five EMBI attendees were involved in the sessions as listed below.

Dr. Tatjana Rundek presented Creative Recruiting Strategies, and Successes

Dr. Susan Blanton presented Biological Clocks in Families.

Dr. Ralph L. Sacco participated in the Panel: "Next steps to make solutions for optimizing cognitive health a reality – or how to take our science out of the lab and make it useful for people.”

Dr. Christian Agudelo (McKnight Neurocognitive Scholar) presented Sleep and Cognition in Hispanic Community Health Study – Study of Latinos (HCHS-SOL)

Dr. Bonnie Levin was the moderator for the “Novel Methods for Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Participants for Studies of Brain and Cognitive Aging” session