People from all health backgrounds can now volunteer.

With your help, we can learn about different lifestyles and bring discoveries into clinical practice-for the 55 million people diagnosed with dementia. Sign up to be notified when you match for a new trial or program!

Advanced dementia treatment

Our care is built on groundbreaking comprehensive research and the latest advancing therapies for dementia and all neurologic disorders.

Because of our world-renowned research at the Biggs Institute and UT Health San Antonio, those impacted by dementia, movement disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurologic disorders have access to innovative expert care.

Help advance treatment as a healthy volunteer

Everyone can contribute to our understandings of brain aging and help us find new drugs and leading-edge treatments for dementia as a healthy volunteer.

Healthy volunteers are greatly needed for observational studies, where participation may include free annual health exams or providing information about your lifestyle.

As a healthy clinical trial volunteer, you can help our team learn more about brain health across different lifestyles, ethnicities and other factors.


View all clinical trials

View all clinical trials at the Biggs Institute.

Sign up to be matched with a clinical trial

Complete an online interest form for a member of our clinical research to contact you to discuss available clinical trials.

By 2030, 40% of Alzheimer’s patients in the U.S. will be Hispanic or Black.

However, Hispanics make up less than 1% of participants in National Institutes of Health clinical trials.

Our new trial for healthy volunteers seeks to represent this underrepresented group and understand their high risk for dementia.

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Partnerships

The Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio is an official partner of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study and the University of Southern California Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute.