The project will systematically investigate causal links between intervention targets, brain aging, pathology, and disorder-related outcomes to identify gaps and opportunities in mechanisms of action across human and animal research.

NIH RePORTER lists project details for grant 11321032, providing official context for funding and aims.

Stanford Psychiatry Associate Professor Feng Vankee Lin has secured National Institute on Aging support for the project titled “NEW Brain Aging Annual Workshop 2025-2028.”

The initiative prioritizes early career investigators and trainees to build expertise in methodological advances and research translation.

The grant funds three annual workshops coordinated with the Society for Neuroscience meeting to push forward brain modulation interventions for aging-related mental and neurological disorders, including dementia, late-onset depression, and Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Lin’s Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory (CogT) aims to promote successful cognitive aging and delay Alzheimer’s-related dementia, with recent cross-species work on emotional well-being and brain aging published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Researchers will develop experimental designs to establish causality and directionality in intervention components, and will explore AI-assisted computational methods for causal inference and mechanistic modeling.