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Focus on Brain Disorders: Research Across the Lifespan

Fogarty is celebrating a decade of its brain disorders program with a symposium highlighting progress in expanding research capacity in developing countries for neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, addiction and other conditions.
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Alzheimer's research in Colombia

Researchers are collaborating to study an heritable variant of early-onset Alzheimer's disease in remote, mountainous regions of Colombia.
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Protecting cognition in Brazil

In an impoverished area of northeastern Brazil researchers are studying children to determine how enteric and parasitic infections impact health.
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Bill Gates celebrates research collaborations at NIH

During a recent visit to the Bethesda campus global health philanthropist Bill Gates paid tribute to the numerous flourishing partnerships between his family foundation and the NIH.
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US losing biomedical research leadership

According to recent analysis, the U.S. is slowly reducing its biomedical research and development investments while other countries - particularly in Asia - are boosting theirs.
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Fogarty launches mHealth program

Fogarty has launched a new program to encourage further development of mobile technology and research into how it can be used to improve health, especially in low-resource countries.
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