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More than 84,000 San Diego County residents are living with Alzheimer's, while more than 200,000 residents care for someone with the disease. (Shutterstock / Tashatuvango)
SAN DIEGO, CA — An alliance of local research institutions announced Wednesday the National Institute on Aging has awarded it $7.46 million in federal grants to advance research to combat Alzheimer's disease.
The funds are headed to Collaboration4Cure, an alliance of top research institutions brought together by San Diego County and Alzheimer's San Diego. C4C grew out of the work of The Alzheimer's Project, a regional effort to address a rise in local cases of dementia, the region's third-leading cause of death after cancer and heart disease.