Translational Center for Accelerating the Use of Digital Health Technologies Data in AD/ADRD Research
NIA plans to fund a center to develop infrastructure and best practices for sharing and integrating digital health technology data to advance Alzheimer's and related dementia research.
Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Due Dates: May 25, 2026 (Estimated, Forecasted)
Funding Amounts: Award ceiling and floor not yet specified; single multi-year cooperative agreement expected (U54 mechanism).
Summary: Supports establishment of a translational center to accelerate the use of digital health technology data in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research.
Key Information: This is a forecasted opportunity; applications are not yet being accepted.
Description
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) plans to issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to establish a multi-component Translational Center focused on accelerating the use of Digital Health Technologies (DHT) data in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) research. The Center will develop infrastructure, methods, and best practices for hosting, discovering, accessing, disseminating, and integrating multi-modal, legacy, and new DHT data. Its primary goal is to enable and accelerate the (re)use of these data in translational and clinical AD/ADRD research.
A major deliverable will be a cloud-based, federated, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data repository to securely store, process, disseminate, analyze, and integrate DHT data from NIH- and other-funded AD/ADRD studies.
