The RW Turner Lab is pleased to announce a 3-year Super Bowl conference grant: NIA - 1R13AG071313-01

Black Male Brain Reserve, Resilience & Alzheimer's Disease: Life Course Perspectives

2023 Leadership Team

Robert W. Turner II, Ph.D. | MPI

The George Washington University

Desire A. Byrd, Ph.D. | Co-I

Queens College, CUNY

Michael Malesky | Coordinator, Emerging Scholars Program

Wayne State University

Stacey Thal

Research Assistant

Maria C. Carrillo, Ph.D. | Pl

Alzheimer's Association

Percy Griffin, Ph.D. | Co-I

Alzheimer's Association

Emerging Scholars Cohort 1

Victor Ekuta

MIT linQ Catalyst Fellow | MD Candidate | Penn Alzheimer's Disease Research Center | Clark Scholar

Casey LaDuke, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice & The Graduate Center | City University of New York Assistant Clinical Professor | Brain Injury Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Roy Calvin McReynolds III

Fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the NeuroscienceInterdepartmental Program (NSIDP) | 2022 SMDP Scholar

Darlingtina Esiaka, Ph.D

INSPIRE Fellow | Director of Community Engagement, Aging & Brain Health Alliance, Rutgers University.

Willie F. McBride III, Ph.D.

Clinical Neuropsychologist Assistant Professor Director | Adult Neuropsychology Emphasis Area Spalding University School of Professional Psychology

Brandon A. Yates, MS, CSCS

Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University School of Medicine

Breton M. Asken, Ph.D., ATC

Postdoctoral Neuropsychology Fellow UCSF Memory and Aging Center

Rio Story Tate, B.S.

Ph.D. Student University of South Florida | 2022 Pat Tillman Foundation Scholar

Ashley R. Shaw, Ph.D., MPH

Research Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center

From Dr. Turner:

I am excited to share that Co-PIs Drs. Monica Rivera-Mendt, Mary Carillo, and I received a notice of award (NOA) from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for a R13 3-year conference grant. The aims of this multidisciplinary conference series are:

(1) to identify knowledge gaps and future priorities in cognitive reserve, resilience, aging, and AD/ADRD health disparities life course research among Black males;

(2) to cultivate a culturally competent workforce trained and committed to addressing Black male’s brain health, cognitive aging, and AD/ADRD research;

(3) to build a national research volunteer registry of Black Males.

We are equally excited to be working closely the National Football League Alumni Association and the Alzheimer’s Association on this project.