NIH FY 2025 Professional Judgement Budget

At today’s meeting of the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services, NIA Director Dr. Richard Hodes presented the NIH FY 2025 Professional Judgment Budget, “A New Era: Driving Momentum in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Research.” The Professional Judgment Budget narrative outlines examples of prospective research opportunities that could be supported with additional funds in FY 2025. Examples of future research opportunities are organized across six broad scientific categories: Epidemiology/Population Studies Disease Mechanisms Diagnosis, Assessment, & Disease Monitoring Translational Research & Clinical Interventions Dementia Care & Impact of Disease Research Resources The FY 2025 Professional Judgment Budget also emphasizes significant cross-cutting research efforts centered on international studies.
 
For FY 2025, additional NIH resources needed for new Alzheimer’s and related dementias research are $318 million, which would bring the total FY 2025 NIH resource needs for AD/ADRD research to $4.07 billion.
 
NIH also released today a companion document, the 2023 NIH Scientific Progress Report, “Advancements Build Momentum: 10 Years of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research,” which summarizes significant NIH-funded dementia research advances from the last ten years.
 
NIA’s Office of Legislation, Policy, and International Activities (OLPIA) and Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL) will hold a webinar for stakeholders on Tuesday, August 8, from 1:00—2:00 pm ET to review the FY 2025 Professional Judgment Budget and the 2023 Progress Report, as well as answer any questions you may have. To register, please visit the online registration site.

NIH Hosting Presentation on Professional Judgment Budget for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research for Fiscal Year 2025

NIA OLPIA will hold the third in a new series of virtual “OLPIA Office Hours” on Tuesday, August 8, from 1:00—2:00 pm ET. Each OLPIA Office Hour will open with a presentation, followed by an office hour-style segment guided by your questions and interests regarding the talk or other topics you may wish to discuss with OLPIA staff.

The August 8th Office Hour will feature a presentation on the NIH Professional Judgment Budget for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research for Fiscal Year 2025, also known as the Alzheimer’s Disease “Bypass Budget,” as well as the Alzheimer’s Disease Progress Report. Speakers from OLPIA and NIA’s Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL) will lead the discussion. To register for this session, please visit the online registration site.

“Small Towns/Big Trends: Demographic Insights on Living, Working, and Thriving” briefing hosted by the Population Association of America

Small Towns/Big Trends: Demographic Insights on Living, Working, and Thriving,” that the Population Association of America is hosting on Friday, March 18, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET.

The briefing will feature an expert panel presenting research regarding demographic, economic, health, and environmental challenges and opportunities facing U.S. rural communities from the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (funded by the National Institute on Aging), and the Rural Population Research Network (funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture).

More information about the briefing, including a link to register, is available on the PAA home page.

NIA Advisory Council Meeting September 9th

Join us for the Open Session of the NIA Advisory Council Meeting on September 9th from 10am – 1pm ET

To view: http://videocast.nih.gov

Agenda

SEPTEMBER 9

10:00 a.m. to adjournment – This portion of the meeting is open to the Public.

This meeting will be videocast from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.:  http://videocast.nih.gov

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

  1. Call to Order———————————————————— Dr. Richard Hodes

10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
II.  Report:  Task Force on Minority Aging Research
Dr J Taylor Harden

10:45 to 11:45 a.m.

III. Report:  Working Group on Program

Dr. Stephen Kritchevsky

11:45 to 12:00 p.m.

IV. A Word from Retiring Members

Dr. Richard Hodes

David Bennett, J Taylor Harden, David Holtzman, Stephen Kritchevsky, and Sue Peschin

12:00 to 12:30 p.m.

V.  Council Guest Speaker

Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable

Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities “Health Disparities Challenges in Aging Research”

12:30 to 1:00 p.m.                                             

VI. Council Guest Speaker

Dr. Monica A. Driscoll

Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

“Neurons Put Out the Trash: A Novel Facet of Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Quality Control”

1:00 p.m.

Adjournment