COSMIC Research Scientific Committee and NIH grant investigators

CHeBA Consortia - COSMIC
Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium: An international consortium to combine data from population-based longitudinal cohorts studies to identify common risk factors for dementia and cognitive decline.

The COSMIC Research Scientific Committee (RSC) is comprised of one leading researcher from each of the contributing studies:

Study

RSC member

Additional study leader

10/66 Cuba (Cuban Health and Alzheimer Study) Juan J. Llibre-Rodriguez  
10/66 Dominican Republic Daisy Acosta  
10/66 Mexico Ana Luisa Sosa  
10/66 Peru Mariella Guerra Arteaga  
10/66 Puerto Rico Ivonne Z. Jimenez-Velazquez  
10/66 Venezuela  Aquiles Salas  

Atma Jaya Cognitive & Aging Research (ACtive Aging Research)

Yuda Turana

 

The Atahualpa Project

Oscar H. Del Brutto

 

Bambui Cohort Study of Aging

Erico Costa

 

Boston Puerto Rican Health Study

Katherine Tucker

 

Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) Program

Bagher Larijani

Iraj Nabipour

Canadian Study of Health & Aging (CSHA)

Kenneth Rockwood

 

Chinese Longitudinal Aging Study (CLAS)

Xiao Shifu

 

Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS)

Carol Brayne

 

Cuban Health and Alzheimer Study (CHAS)

Juan Llibre-Rodriguez

 

Einstein Aging Study (EAS)

Richard Lipton

Mindy J Katz

Epidemiology of Dementia in Central Africa (EPIDEMCA)

Maëlenn Guerchet

Pierre-Marie Preux

EpiFloripa Aging Study

Eleonora d’Orsi  

Etude Santé Psychologique Prévalence Risques et Traitement (ESPRIT)

Karen Ritchie

Marie-Laure Ancelin

Faroese Septuagenarian Cohort

Maria Skaalum Petersen

 

Framingham Heart Study (FHS)

Rhoda Au

 

Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies

Ingmar Skoog

 

Hellenic Longitudinal Investigation of Aging and Diet (HELIAD)

Nikolaos Scarmeas

 

Hisayama Study

Toshiharu Ninimiya

 

Hong Kong Memory and Ageing Prospective Study (HK-MAPS)

Linda Lam

 

Ibadan Study of Ageing (ISA)

Oye Gureje

 

Identification and Intervention for Dementia in Elderly Africans (IDEA) Study

Stella-Maria Paddick

Richard Walker

I-Lan Longitudinal Aging Study (ILAS)

Liang-Kung Chen

 

IMIAS (International Mobility in Aging Study)

Mohammad Auais Ricardo Oliveira Guerra

Indianapolis Ibadan Dementia Project

Hugh Hendrie

 

Invecchiamento Cerebrale in Abbiategrasso (Invece.Ab)

Antonio Guaita

 

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Rose Anne Kenny

 

KLOSCAD (Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia)

Ki-Woong Kim

 

Kurihara Project

Kenichi Meguro

 

Leiden 85-plus study

Jacobijn Gussekloo

 

Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+)

Steffi Riedel-Heller

 

LRGS TUA: Neuroprotective Model for Healthy Longevity among Malaysian Older Adults

Suzana Shahar

 

Maastricht Aging Study (MAAS)

Sebastian Koehler

Martin van Boxtel

Marikina Memory and Aging Project (MMAP)

Jacqueline Dominguez

 

Monongahela-Youghiogheny Healthy Aging Team (MYHAT)

Mary Ganguli

 

MYNAH (MYsore studies of Natal effects on Ageing and Health)

Murali Krishna

 

Neuroepidemiology of cognitive impairment in adults from marginal urban areas: a door-to-door population study in the Puente Piedra district, Lima, Perú Nilton Custodio  
Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) Bernadette McGuinness Frank Kee

Personality & Total Health (PATH) Through Life project

Kaarin Anstey

 

Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions Study (PREHCO)

Michael Crowe

 

Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA)

Mary Haan

 

Sasaguri Genkimon Study

Kenji Narazaki

 

Shanghai Aging Study (SAS)

Ding Ding

 

Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS I & II)

Ng Tze Pin

 

São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)

Marcia Scazufca

 

Sydney Memory & Ageing Study (MAS)

Henry Brodaty

Perminder Sachdev

Taiwan Initiative for Geriatric Epidemiological Research (TIGER)

Yen-Ching Chen Jen-Hau Chen

Tajiri Project

Kenichi Meguro

 

Ugandan study

Vincent Mubangizi

 

Vallecas Project Pascual Sanchez-Juan  

Washington Heights Inwood and Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP)

Richard Mayeux

Nicole Schupf

ZARADEMP Project

Antonio Lobo

 

COSMIC NIH Grant Investigators

  • Perminder Sachdev: Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry; Co-Director, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney; Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 
  • Mary Ganguli: Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh;
  • Ronald Petersen: Professor of Neurology; Director, Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging;
  • Richard Lipton: Edwin S. Lowe Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
  • Karen Ritchie: Professor and Director of the Neuropsychiatry Research Unit of the French National Institute of Research (INSERM U1061);
  • Ki-Woong Kim: Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Director of National Institute of Dementia of Korea;
  • Louisa Jorm: Director, Centre for Big Data Research in Health and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Australia;
  • Henry Brodaty: Scientia Professor of Ageing & Mental Health; Co-Director, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney; Director, Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (DCRC); Senior Consultant, Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital.