PET Core for Alzheimer’s research and biomarkers
Official title: PET Core
Funded at Northern California Institute/res/edu · NIH-11395212 · Data updated 2026-11-12
A NIH-supported PET imaging core helps standardize and analyze brain scans to understand Alzheimer’s disease better.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Northern California Institute/res/edu NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (San Francisco, United States) |
| Project start | September 30, 2004 |
| Project end | July 31, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $1,377,239 |
| NIH project number | 5U19AG024904-19 |
| Project ID | NIH-11395212 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Participants who are undergoing PET imaging as part of Alzheimer’s disease or related biomarker studies and who consent to long-term imaging follow-up.
✕Less likely to help
Patients not enrolled in PET imaging studies or not contributing to longitudinal imaging data may see no direct benefit.
What this research studies
This grant supports a PET Imaging Core that standardizes how PET brain scans are acquired, processed, and read across sites so researchers can compare data reliably. It adds new PET tracers to track amyloid and tau proteins, helping map how Alzheimer’s progresses in people. The core also provides quality control, data formatting, and readouts that researchers worldwide can use to study the disease over time.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the project could improve how we detect and track Alzheimer's in patients using better imaging biomarkers.
How similar studies have gone: Previous Alzheimer’s imaging cores have shown that standardized PET data improves cross-study comparisons and biomarker readouts.
Where this research is happening
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Northern California Institute/res/edu
San Francisco, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Jagust, William J. — Northern California Institute/res/edu
- Study coordinator: Jagust, William J.
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.