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The Bloomfield Centre
for Research in Aging (BCRA) was founded in 1989 with a generous
donation from Mrs. Neri Bloomfield
and the Eldee Foundation. The BCRA was established to promote
research into all aspects of aging, concentrating on cellular
and molecular mechanisms of healthy aging and age-related
diseases.
The Centre occupies the fourth floor of the Lady
Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Sir Mortimer B.
Davis - Jewish General Hospital, a teaching hospital of McGill
University in Montreal.
The BCRA is unique in Canada, a centre
focused on aging and neurodegenerative diseases with expertise
extending from molecular studies of the pathophysiology of
disease, up to clinical and imaging studies of AD, population
studies, and evaluation of health delivery systems for the
elderly.
Funding for research activities now comes from international
organizations such as the NIH, NIA, Alzheimer’s Association
(USA), the American Health Assistance Foundation, the Alzheimer’s
Society of Canada, the Quebec FRSQ, and the Medical Research
Council of Canada (now the Canadian Institutes for Health Research)
along with private donations.
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