People from all health backgrounds can become a clinical trial volunteer

With your help, we can bring research discoveries into clinical practice-for millions of people and their families.

Advanced dementia treatment

You can receive advanced treatment through clinical trials.

Clinical trials are research studies used to find new and better ways to treat and ultimately prevent dementia.

As a leading academic health center and through our partnerships, you will have access to the newest treatments available.

Help advance treatment as a healthy volunteer

You can also help advance dementia treatment as a healthy volunteer.

Some clinical studies involve exciting new treatments, others are observational. In an observational study, people who may not have dementia, but want to help can sign-up to volunteer. Healthy volunteering may include annual exams or providing information, like blood samples.

As a volunteer, you can help us learn more about brain health across different lifestyles, ethnicities and other factors.

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Partnerships

The Biggs Institute is an official partner of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study and the University of Southern California Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute.

You can be a part of life-saving research by donating blood

Our researchers are expanding the understanding of dementia by learning how biological and environmental factors may influence a person’s health. You can provide biological samples, like blood, for researchers to use when they need information to complete studies- helping us save resources.