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Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville gets a $41 million grant for major Alzheimer's study

Bob Self
/
Florida Times-Union

Lessons learned in a Mayo Clinic study could lead to treatment or even a cure for Alzheimer's.

The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville has received a $41 million federal grant for a potentially groundbreaking study to better understand Alzheimer's disease and how the brain disorder affects people of different ethnic groups.

The lessons learned could lead to treatment or even a cure.

The five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, is one of the largest in the Jacksonville clinic's history.

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Beth Reese Cravey - Florida Times-Union