Dementia Research Progress Reports and Bypass Budget Proposals

Each year, NIH issues an annual progress report featuring highlights of NIH-funded Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research advances. The report provides a comprehensive overview of meaningful prevention, diagnostic, treatment, and care discoveries scientists have made toward addressing the enormous challenges of these devastating diseases.

Additionally, NIH annually submits to the President and then Congress a Professional Judgment Budget that estimates additional future funding needed to most effectively leverage promising scientific opportunities in dementia research. This estimate is often referred to as a "bypass budget" because it is presented without modification through the traditional federal budget process.

Current Reports

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  NIH Scientific Progress Report 2022

  Read the 2022 NIH report on scientific progress, which provides an overview of the meaningful progress researchers made between April 2021 and early 2022 in areas including drug development, lifestyle interventions, biomarker research, and more.

  View Progress Report (PDF, 19.7M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2024

  This budget proposal outlines the additional funding needed in FY 2024 to advance NIH-supported research toward achieving the goals outlined by the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 11M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2023

  This bypass budget proposal discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and outlines the additional funding needed in FY 2023 to advance NIH-supported research toward achieving the goals outlined by the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 11.5M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2022

  This bypass budget proposal estimates the additional effort and funding needed in FY 2022 to meet the 2025 goal of finding effective methods of treatment and prevention for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 5.4M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2021

  This document provides an extensive array of current and cutting-edge research accomplishments and an outline of efforts to capitalize on the investments made in the Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research enterprise.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 2.6M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2020

  This bypass budget proposal for FY 2020 describes completed and ongoing research, our efforts and accomplishments, and the continuing needs of everyone involved to achieve the national goal of effectively treating or preventing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias by 2025.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 1.4M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2019

  The FY 2019 bypass budget outlines the optimal approach NIH would take to meet the research goals of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 1.3M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2018

  This FY 2018 bypass budget outlines the optimal approach NIH would take to meet the research goals of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 1.9M)

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  Bypass Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2017

  This FY 2017 bypass budget outlines the optimal approach NIH would take in an ideal world unconstrained by fiscal limitations to make real and lasting progress against this devastating group of disorders.

  View Bypass Budget Proposal (PDF, 948K)