Glucose Transport

Steven Barger, Ph.D., Receives $1.9 Million Grant to Study Role of Glucose Transport in Alzheimer’s Progression

By Chris Carmody

LITTLE ROCK — Steven Barger, Ph.D., professor of geriatrics in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, has received a five-year federal grant to support his research on the role of glucose transport in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

The project will receive $382,500 in funding for the current grant year and a projected total of $1,912,500 over the five-year term. The grant was awarded by the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

Barger, a faculty member at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, said the goal of his research is to test — and potentially treat — a newly discovered element of energy usage in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

https://news.uams.edu/2023/08/08/steven-barger-ph-d-receives-1-9-million-grant-to-study-role-of-glucose-transport-in-alzheimers-progression/

Steven Barger, Ph.D., professor of geriatrics in the UAMS College of Medicine and faculty member at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging