The USC president designates brain health as one of the five moonshots. The ADRC supports major ADRD centers and institutes that the university has established for AD. USC is home to the first School of Gerontology in the United States (1975) and is among the first five inaugural Alzheimer Disease Research Centers (ADRC) funded by the National Institute on Aging (1984) (PI: CE Finch). During the past 20 years, the University of Southern California has continued to invest in this area and build a robust research infrastructure to support the discovery and treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD) and related disorders (ADRD). Cornerstones include the Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute (ZNI-2003), Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics (INI-2013), Alzheimer Therapeutics Research Institute (ATRI-2015), and most recently, the Center for Personalized Brain Health (CPBH-2023). Further, The Vice President for Research (Puri), Senior Vice President for Health Sciences (Shapiro) and the Dean of the Keck School of Medicine (Meltzer) provide generous institutional support to the USC ADRC (see letter of support Overall).
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