Announcing plans for a state-of-the-art facility for UCI MIND

I am delighted to announce that, thanks to a lead gift from the Quilter family and generous support from other members of our community, UCI MIND will begin planning to build a state-of-the-art research and care facility to enhance its position as a global leader in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research and patient care. 

The $50 million commitment from the Quilter family, made in honor of Ann Quilter, M.S. ’79, to support the priorities of UCI MIND, the university’s internationally renowned institute dedicated to advancing the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, was announced on Oct. 4 at the close of the Brilliant Future campaign.

In just the few short weeks since then, and inspired by the Quilter family’s example, people of goodwill who recognize the importance of UCI MIND’s groundbreaking work, including Harriet Harris, the Brethren Community Foundation, Michael K. Hayde and Laura Khouri, and Keith Swayne, have increased the total funding to nearly $80 million. 

The new facility will have both research and clinical spaces where interdisciplinary teams from across campus will collaborate and where patients will have access to the latest innovations. It will strengthen collaboration between researchers and clinicians to accelerate discoveries from bench to bedside, expand education and training for the next generation of experts, and deepen community outreach to families and caregivers.

Earlier this year, UCI MIND received a $21 million renewal grant from the National Institute on Aging to reinforce its status as a global leader in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research. The five-year award underpins the continued work of UCI MIND’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, which has been advancing the understanding of memory impairments and engaging with the community for more than 40 years.

Read more about the new building. We are honored to steward the extraordinary philanthropy of these donors as, together, we strive to understand, and eventually eliminate, the scourge of age-related dementia.

Chancellor Howard Gillman