More than 100 researchers, trainees and students who study cognitive aging and age-related memory loss across the four McKnight Brain Institutes (MBI) – at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Arizona, University of Florida and University of Miami – came together in Tucson, Arizona from April 8-10 for the McKnight Brain Research Foundation’s (MBRF) 17th Inter-Institutional Meeting. New this year, ten current and past recipients of the MBRF’s Clinical Translational Research Scholarship and Innovator Awards also attended the meeting.
What Is Cognition? A Guide to How the Mind Works
We rely on the mind constantly, but rarely stop to consider how it works. As its demands change, understanding cognition is becoming increasingly important.
Announcing the 2026 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Clinical Translational Research Scholars
The McKnight Brain Research Foundation recently named Maria Pia Campagna, PhD, University of California, San Francisco and Quentin Devignes, PhD, University of Michigan as the 2026 recipients of the McKnight Clinical Translational Research Scholarship in Cognitive Aging and Age-Related Memory Loss.
Announcing the 2025 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) are pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of The McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss: Leah Acker, MD, Duke University and Erin Gibson, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine.
Announcing the 2024 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) are pleased to announce the 2024 recipients of The McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss: Janine Kwapis, PhD, of Pennsylvania State University, and Sanaz Sedaghat, PhD, of the University of Minnesota.
The McKnight Brain Research Foundation is Seeking a Chief Executive Officer
The McKnight Brain Research Foundation is seeking a visionary and strategic leader with fluency in basic and/or clinical neuroscience and related health sciences to lead and advance the Foundation’s mission and purpose of preserving memory and supporting healthy cognitive aging through research and education.