The Indiana University School of Medicine hopes to make significant advancements in Alzheimer’s disease research thanks to a new $16.5 million federal grant.

The five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging will fund a new research center at the medical school which will be one of only two centers in the United States dedicated to developing stem-cell-based models of the human brain to better understand Alzheimer’s disease.

The other organization receiving funding is Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

IU’s new research center—known as Microphysiological Systems to Advance Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, or MAP-AD—will focus on better understanding a gene mutation associated with Alzheimer’s disease that

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