What are the biggest challenges facing researchers?
The biggest challenge facing researchers is the lack of funding available to them. Unfortunately, the amount of money being spent on Alzheimer research in Canada is not nearly enough to fund all the worthwhile research proposals. For example, in 2008, the Alzheimer Society Research Program was able to fund only 50 per cent of the research applications we received that were rated highly by the review panels as worthy of support. The rest just couldn’t be funded.
