UW–Madison’s Brandon Fico has been awarded a three-year research fellowship from the Alzheimer’s Association for his project entitled, “Arterial Stiffness and Cerebral Hemodynamics Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Fico is a postdoctoral fellow in the Bruno Balke Biodynamics Laboratory in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology.
The fellowship will support Fico’s investigation of how age-related changes in the cardiovascular system — such as stiffening of the arteries — impact brain blood flow, and how these changes correlate with biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, he will study how reductions in brain blood flow, typically seen with advancing age, affect blood vessel health within the brain.