Ortega-Cruz, Diana
Rabano, Alberto
Strange, Bryan A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
CIEN Foundation
Queen Sofia Foundation
‘la Caixa’ Foundation (LCF/BQ/DR20/11790034)
MIT International Science and Technology Initiative Global Seed Fund (0000000246)
Article History
Received: 1 September 2024
Accepted: 29 November 2024
First Online: 9 January 2025
Declarations
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: The BT-CIEN brain bank is an officially registered biobank by the Carlos III Research Institute (Ref: 741). BT-CIEN procedures, as well as VACS cohort patient follow-up have been approved by local health authorities (Ref: MCB/RMSFC, Expte: 12672). All brain donations were carried out under informed consent by a relative or proxy, as approved by the Ethics Committee of the Carlos III Research Institute. The study of these data was independently approved by the ethics committee of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (N◦ Expte: 2021-062).
: The Vallecas Alzheimer’s Center Study was designed between 2005 and 2006 by the CIEN Foundation with consultation of the Ethics Committee and local health authorities. Following national regulations at the time, and due to the sensitivity of the data collected, consent for publication was not included in the informed consent forms used for this study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.