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The Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways, and Dementia in Diverse Populations, funded by the National Institute on Aging, announces their 2023 request for pilot proposals that will advance science in the education—dementia relationship in 1 of 3 critical areas: 

• Critical Area 1: Early life factors and the education—dementia relationship 
• Critical Area 2: Mid-life socioeconomic, social, and psychological mediators of education and dementia 
• Critical Area 3: Biological mechanisms linking education to dementia 

Applications can span more than 1 critical area, but are required to examine how race, ethnicity, gender, and/or geography shape the proposed relationships. We invite applications from new, emerging, and established dementia researchers. Interdisciplinary projects that include a dementia clinician and social scientist MPI team and require additional resources may request up to $35,000 in total (direct + indirect) costs. 

The EBDDP  is a research network funded by the National Institute on Aging that aims to advance scientific understanding of how education relates to dementia by exploring the socioeconomic, social, psychological, and biological mechanisms that shape resilience and risk and if these patterns differ by race, ethnicity, gender, or geography. The Network is led by Sanjay Asthana (University of Wisconsin), Pamela Herd (Georgetown University), and Katrina Walsemann (University of Maryland). It includes new, emerging, and established dementia researchers from universities around the country. We are especially interested in receiving applications from investigators with more limited dementia research, but with significant expertise in race/ethnic, gender, or geographic health disparities, as well as investigators already engaged in dementia research but who have not yet focused on educational disparities.

For full details on the RFA, please see the full call.