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BRF: Center for Excellence in Dementia and Aging Research (CEDAR) Building

Award Number: C06OD042706
ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NIH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: CONSTRUCTION
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/18/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2029

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BRF: Center for Excellence in Dementia and Aging Research (CEDAR) Building - SUMMARY New Mexico has one of the fastest-growing elderly populations in the country. Currently, the number of people with dementia in the state is more than 53,000. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) focuses on improving the health of the elderly in both large urban and sparsely populated medically underserved rural areas of the state. The Center for Memory & Aging (CMA) was established in 2016 to provide healthcare to patients with dementia and assess the risk in the elderly population. The University of New Mexico has many faculty members involved in various aspects of elder care, scattered across both the main and medical school campuses and currently lack a space to collaborate on large projects. In 2024, the New Mexico Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NM ADRC) was funded with 7 cores and a research education component (REC), making a common space more imperative to facilitate collaborative studies. This important operation of the CMA is severely hampered by a lack of space, and the proposed C06 construction grant will fund a freestanding building called ‘Center for Excellence in Dementia and Aging Research’ (CEDAR) adjacent to the CMA to provide working space for research teams that need to collaborate and to include community members from the ADRC Outreach Core. Multiple UNM departments will be part of the CEDAR. It will be located on the southwest side of the Domenici Hall. It is unique in that it brings together research participants, community collaborations, neuroimaging, biomarker laboratory analysis, and data collection under one roof. The imaging facilities at the Mind Research Network (MRN) and the newly installed 3T MRI provide the CMA with cutting- edge imaging and data analysis. The new space near the Domenici Hall will be a hub for collaboration across programs, centers, and departments, including the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) and the Environmental Health (EH) program. The additional space will allow us to build stronger connections with community participants by providing a space to meet, which, in turn, will provide research opportunities for on- site visits to rural Hispanic and American Indian communities across the state of New Mexico. There will be a new space for families of research participants to obtain feedback and advice, to obtain consents, and quiet spaces to complete neuropsychological testing. The nearby laboratory facility will simplify sample collection and storage. Data processing will be consolidated in the new digital facilities in the wing, as will the space for neuropathological studies, which will be consolidated and integrated with imaging. By encouraging collaboration, this expansion will help investigators explore new ideas for collaborative grants with CoBREs and EH programs. It will be a site for learners to interact with faculty mentors. It will improve the satisfaction of research participants and improve the ability to recruit into clinical trials. Finally, through the ADRC Research Education training mission, this expansion would help train the next generation of dementia researchers.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $8,000,000 )
2026	2026	UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO	1 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO	ALBUQUERQUE	NM	87131	BERNALILLO	USA	Construction Support	000	1	9/17/2026	NEW	$8,000,000
														Subtotal = $8,000,000

Grand Total All Awards = $8,000,000

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BRF: Center for Excellence in Dementia and Aging Research (CEDAR) Building

Award Number: C06OD042706

ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NIH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: CONSTRUCTION

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/18/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2029

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