Extra state funding for brain disease research on the ballot this November could have a big impact in San Antonio and South Texas, home to a federally designated Alzheimer’s disease research center and a population that faces higher rates of dementia.

The Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas was approved by state lawmakers earlier this year with bipartisan support. But voters will have a chance to weigh in on Proposition 14 this November, which would allocate $3 billion in state funding for the institute.

Modeled after the state’s Cancer Prevention and Research Institute formed in 2007, DPRIT would administer grants to researchers studying Parkinson’s disease, dementia and other brain diseases. It would be the largest state-funded brain disease research fund of its kind.

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