DIAN Study Searches Alzheimer Cure

A new study, called the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) study, is following multiple generations of family members across the globe with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens reports on a Seattle family that is providing never-before insights into the disease’s first signs.

Funded by a multiple-year research grant from the National Institute on Aging, DIAN currently involves eleven outstanding research institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. John C. Morris, M.D., Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the project’s principal investigator.

DIAN is currently enrolling study participants who are biological adult children of a parent with a mutated gene known to cause dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease. Such individuals may or may not carry the gene themselves and may or may not have disease symptoms.