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Center
of Excellence on Brain Aging at NYU Langone
Medical Center opens new facilities
Newswise — The Center of Excellence (COE) on
Brain Aging at NYU Langone Medical Center
inaugurates a new facility this week at 145
East 32 Street. The state-of-the-art, 15,000
square foot facility empowers collaboration,
uniting the COE’s existing clinical care
centers with well-established clinical
research programs focused on healthy brain
aging, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson
disease, and other neurodegenerative
cognitive disorders.
Patient services, clinical trials and
clinical research will be located on the
second floor which is patient-focused in
layout, with patient-friendly exam rooms.
The Pearl Barlow Center for Memory
Evaluation and Treatment and the NYU
Parkinson and Movement Disorders Center as
well as clinical research programs will be
situated on the second floor.
Patients will benefit from the facility’s
advanced technological capabilities, such as
a psychometric testing lab and Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) lab.
Also relocating to the new premises will be
the nationally funded NYU Alzheimer’s
Disease Center (ADC), an essential component
of the COE.
The fifth floor will serve as the COE’s
nucleus. Wired and wireless, this floor will
be the hub, bringing clinicians and clinical
researchers together regularly over
cross-disciplinary projects, in-person and
through video-conferencing capability.
The Center’s renowned basic research
programs will continue to exist at 550 First
Avenue.
“Researchers and clinicians working side by
side will be able to combine efforts through
closer networking, shared instrumentation,
and enhanced database linkages. This will
align basic and preclinical research more
closely with clinical diagnosis and
treatment,” said Ralph A. Nixon, Ph.D.,
M.D., Director of the COE on Brain Aging.
“Collaboration on this level allows us to
create an unprecedented translational
research capability, accelerating delivery
of innovative therapies from the lab bench
to the patient’s bedside.”
About the Center of Excellence on Brain
Aging
The Center of Excellence on Brain Aging (http://aging.med.nyu.edu.)
is devoted to research and clinical advances
toward the treatment and cure of all
neurodegenerative diseases affecting
cognition, with expertise in healthy brain
aging; Alzheimer’s disease and memory
disorders; Parkinson disease and movement
disorders; atypical dementias; and geriatric
psychiatry.
The COE was founded upon the
strengths of NYU Langone’s existing
Silberstein Institute which for decades has
been devoted to the understanding, cure, and
prevention of age-related cognitive decline
through research, public education and
evidence-based clinical care.
About NYU Langone Medical Center
Located in the heart of New York City, NYU
Langone Medical Center is one of the
nation's premier centers of excellence in
health care, biomedical research, and
medical education.
For
over 168 years, NYU physicians and
researchers have made countless
contributions to the practice and science of
health care.
Today the Medical Center
consists of NYU School of Medicine,
including the Smilow Research Center, the
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine,
and the Sackler Institute of Graduate
Biomedical Sciences; the three hospitals of
NYU Hospitals Center, Tisch Hospital, a
726-bed acute-care general hospital, Rusk
Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, the
first and largest facility of its kind, and
NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, a leader in
musculoskeletal care; and such major
programs as the NYU Cancer Institute, the
NYU Child Study Center, and the Hassenfeld
Children's Center for Cancer and Blood
Disorders.
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