Collaborating Networks and Centers

The Stress Measurement Network aims to advance the science of stress and health by improving how stress is measured in research. Through curated resources, expert-led workshops, and collaborative initiatives, the network supports researchers in selecting and applying robust stress measures. Directed by Drs. Elissa Epel, Wendy Berry Mendes, Aric Prather, and George Slavich, the network fosters greater conceptual and methodological clarity, helping to strengthen stress science in ways that inform research, intervention, and policy.

The Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC) is an NIA-funded center dedicated to discovering better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent Alzheimer’s and other aging-related dementias. The RADC hosts several longitudinal studies including the Religious Orders Study, the Rush Memory and Aging Project, the Minority Aging Research Study, and the African American and Latino Cores, the Pathology Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Study, and the Mexican Teachers Cohort-Cognitive Study. The RADC hosts an established Research resource Sharing Hub, which provides access to data and biospecimens to external investigators. Our established partnership with the RADC will enable access to the Resource Sharing Hub and collaborations with the Center Director Dr David A. Bennett, an expert in community-based cohort studies that includes the identification of the molecular basis of psychosocial factors. Their approach includes genomic, experiential, psychosocial, and medical risk factors for common diseases and conditions of aging in which all participants are brain donors paired with deep blood and brain omics.